"The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were so overpowering as to leave me a bit sick. In one room, where they [there] were piled up twenty or thirty naked men, killed by starvation, George Patton would not even enter. He said that he would get sick if he did so. I made the visit [to Gotha] deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to "propaganda.""
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Presidents of the United StatesMilitary leaders from the United StatesPoliticians from TexasLegion of Honour recipientsUnited States presidential candidates, 1956
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According to TruthOrFiction.com, it was Eisenhower in a letter written by him. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, it was written in a letter by General George Marshall to Eisenhower.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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