Editing Alben W. Barkley (section)

===Buchenwald concentration camp===
[[File:Buchenwald-bei-Weimar-am-24-April-1945.jpg|thumb|U.S. Senator Alben W. Barkley (D-Kentucky) looks on after Buchenwald's liberation. 24 April 1945]]
On April 11, 1945, U.S. forces liberated the [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], established in 1937, where at least 56,545 people died. General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] left rotting corpses unburied so a visiting group of U.S. legislators could truly understand the horror of the atrocities. This group visited Buchenwald on April 24 to inspect the camp and learn firsthand about the enormity of the Nazi [[Final Solution]] and treatment of other prisoners.

The legislators included Barkley, [[Edouard Izac|Ed Izac]], [[John Martin Vorys|John M. Vorys]], [[Dewey Jackson Short|Dewey Short]], [[Charles W. Brooks|C. Wayland Brooks]], and [[Kenneth S. Wherry]], along with General [[Omar Bradley]] and journalists [[Joseph Pulitzer Jr.|Joseph Pulitzer]], [[Norman Chandler]], William I. Nichols, and [[Julius Ochs Adler]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.scrapbookpages.com/Buchenwald/Liberation5.html |title=American Congressmen and reporters visit Buchenwald, April 24, 1945 |website=www.scrapbookpages.com |access-date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=November 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118003856/http://www.scrapbookpages.com/buchenwald/Liberation5.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1056547 |title=American congressmen view the open ovens in the Buchenwald crematorium. |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |website=collections.ushmm.org |access-date=September 13, 2019 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307221437/https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1056547 |url-status=live }}</ref>