Been through the heart of the Thuringerwald; beautiful countryside. "But I saw another side": Dachau, where Stalin's son and Rev. Niemoller were interned. Has not seen the place yet, but describes reports in Stars and Stripes. Arriving Americans were cheered "in the usual manner of looting each others homes, and they seemed quite merry and bright, chatting about their swag... All along the track lay corpses which had fallen out of the cars. Not one good German had the decency to stop and cover a body with a sheet..." Crematoria and attack dogs. "If you think [the descriptions of the camps] propaganda let me tell you that propaganda could not conceivably dream up anything comparable to the facts. What could carry such a large number of people to such an extreme sadism I do not know. It is not a few people who carried out these schemes..." Destruction of war.
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