Read the passage below from Barack Obama's 2013 speech at the
Buchenwald Concentration Camp. What evidence does this excerpt provide to
support the conclusion that Nazis pursued a policy of genocide toward Jews
during World War Il?
My great uncle's commander, General Eisenhower,
understood this impulse to silence. He had seen the piles
of bodies and starving survivors and deplorable conditions
that the American soldiers found when they arrived, and he
knew that those who witnessed these things might be too
stunned to speak about them or be able - be unable to
find the words to describe them that they might be
rendered mute in the way my great uncle had. And he knew
that what had happened here was so unthinkable that after
the bodies had been taken away, that perhaps no one
would believe it. And that's why he ordered American
troops and Germans from the nearby town to tour the
camp. He invited congressmen and journalists to bear
witness and ordered photographs and films to be made.
- Barack Obama. Buchenwald Concentration Camp. 20131
O
A. Soldiers found bodies piled up when they liberated the
extermination cames,
O
B. General Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to gather photographic
evidence of the camps.
C. Survivors of the concentration camps were malnourished and
starving
O
D. The camps were kept secret from the majority of the German
BE