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The U.S. Army continued keeping Jews in the Axis’s concentration camps (‘We appear to be treating the Jews as the Nazis treated them, except that we do not exterminate them.’ — Harry Truman, Sept. 1946)

This point specifically I think is unfair. When you liberate a prison that has prisoners from far away, you can’t necessarily arrange for everyone to get sent home immediately. Honestly, with the state of anatomical atrophy the survivors had been reduced to – such that eating a larger-than-average meal would kill them – I’d worry about them even being able to make the trip if it was taken immediately.

I could be missing something though (and I concede that them still being there in Sept. 1946 means they were probably being unduly deprioritized)

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