Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Going Camps admit it Atit be me 6uiot 1034 an these things thesis concentration these there i t to ready Lor the so Arr Ogint enemies of a n president Truman More Treyve been going on the centuries and Only so often we see do we Stop to think of Are constantly being cute and will be until we make face the fact and do something about we close our minds tie trouble we always seem to dose our minds to things once we decide we can do nothing about a few Days ago i talked with George Bernard Shaw and he so that this is but further proof that the human race is unable to support either morally or civilization is Only touch and of the f Victory of Allied armies unconditional sur on the l to Ameri Cati forces under your command and to person ally appreciation gratitude of president and people of the United Praise is adequate for the heroic and magnificent courage of every individual under your command during this Jong and trying ame is 4f the essential contribution made your american to Allied Victory want leadership and the deathless men Churchill Speaks to Fields marshal sir Harold supreme commander in the Truman wired momentous occasion of surrender of German armed forces in to you from the president and people of the United stated congratulations on the Sig Nal Success of Allied navies end air forces under your com gained Only by persistent heroic Effort through Many months of a most difficult i Encl also to you personally Bur appreciation of the High order of leadership which conduct tier to their Complete in at 5 t made a similar to the i House of Coj Mons and sent his congratulations to the Allied Lead he pointed out that our armies in Italy had drained of men last summer use on the West Ern front and that a similar withdrawal had taken place Only re although the enemy had made Only a Small corresponding withdrawal during the chronology of Campaign the British prime minister also pointed to the Many nationalities serving under the Allied command Italy in new South a jewish Brazil Ian a unit of ieans free who played their part in liberating their for Eisenhower and mar Shal Montgomery the italian land Ings on september 1043 had served almost As a rehearsal for the More Gigantic task which Lay ahead of them the following june on the Normandy on that government sur although this was not until the the fifth took a came the land Tuno and March got tons of was then and dont forget these Matroci Tiec Are in the West and yet it is Only the West that has cared about Whtiman dignity and human rights at Only a Little part of the that is Why we Are fighting this War in the it is against the dark which might Well to coming in can Sav to do not live in the dark Ages what a Small wart of this world is truly civilized what a minute portion really cares about dignity fights praises Eisenhower order but we wont believe these things until they Are forced upon us then we express but its been there All the while for us to and those of us who did Tell the world about it we rent Eisenhower has done absolutely the bes thing in making the world and Germany see these but if we insist on always blinding ourselves to the dynamic Dorothy is in the mid dle East after a months rest from her Tri weekly column in eur Shes visiting Palestine and Syria and has now resumed her newspaper and radio stints with out being ahead in either of Shes travelling with her or and photographer who doing a series for the ladies of Folie journal and has about him none of the air of being Dorothy showing no Battle scars from her years of controversy starting miss gets one writers cheers for being a woman War correspondent and not looking Shes a matronly with neat Grey hair and Sharp Blue eyes and wore a Fem Inin looking uniform that looked like a was Date should anyone be surprised at All this asks Dorothy Thompson seeing the German prison Camp atrocity pictures in last weeks stars am signal corps photo by yanks find train Load of corpses at Dachau Camp Germany two columns of Lank Riding american All infantrymen of the 42nd and 45th swept unannounced into the infamous Dachau prison Camp of extermination this surprising is guards who were about to have a the americans uncovered an other Stark Monument to the nazi record of murder and human cared that a train Load of prisoners said that inter nees had died of hunger and disease or were shot outright during the past three in addition to the prisoners who perished during the typhus cases were scattered throughout the the water Supply of Dachau was reported to be contained from Gra ves on higher Only american an army major was death was correspondents reported finding 39 open Type Railroad More than half of which were filled with hundreds of reporters were informed that a train Load of mostly had stood on the tracks unattended for several most of the prisoners had starved murder Mill inside the wretched Barracks were found More than some or these victims had been shot by guards in a wild Melee which occurred the previous almost a Hundred naked bodies were discovered in a Torick build ing which served As the murder the bodies were stacked in a Bare room which was a Gas chamber with faucets for admitting the deadly Gas after the room was outside the German child Ren on bicycles pedalled past the stacks of never interrupt ing their looted clothing Hung from their elsewhere in first army troops captured Gustav con id did this week Matte it incr Edul the first verification of a Himmler peace has been made by Ttoe acting Secre tary of Joseph in a terse report to the clarified the mystery Aad told exactly what Heinrich the nazi Ges Tapo actually offered an unconditional surrender to the United states and grew made it Clear Himmler surrender offer not extend to Russia and was therefore flatly Himmler wanted to meet Eisenhower and surrender the whole i Vestern he admitted he hoped to be Able to continue to fight on the Eastern grew said Himmler stated that was so ill he might be Al ready dead and could not live More than two Days at was therefore in full the first peace overture by the Gestapo chief was made on the night of april through swedish foreign minister Churchill hints in prime minister Chur chill still declined to make a Sta tement on the peace Lofter in hinted to the packed House of com Mons on tuesday that the announcement of full Victory in Europe might come before he said he could no state ment at time but if information of exceptional importance reaches Ellis majesty governments during the four Days of our Sitt Ings this it might shall ask to interrupt business and make a Brief he quickly of i shall make Here that is not in Accord with statement which will be made by our he said such an announcement would be made Only after consult ing military commanders in differ ent it is by no Means certain at this Tim that Complete sur Render of All the enemy will make the subject the future he indicating that a peace announcement might precede the final Schwebbe this Schwebbe stated that from to persons who were unworthy to live were killed at the nazis annihilation Institute at Kiev during the nine months he worked he said that he personally Mur dered russians pay Honor to yank liberators murdered by huns 15th to occupy Reich Washington the 15th army will take Over occupation of the Section of Asp re came the push toward Florence and the gothic line seemed to hold through but in Early november first of the Northern was an other Winter statement followed with events following each other in France and Ger Italy received the nickname the forgotten Early ill the push was on to Ward which fell on the two Davs later to was crossed and marshal Alexander announced that Victory in Italy was in our the Campaign lacked Dinday of months May 13th is mothers Day russian women and i liberated from slave labor by of the fim Are pictured they Laid Flowers a the feet of four dead three of whom were murdered by a German 0wi