Men's thoughts are turning to return to the states. Visit to Jena, Leipzig, etc.; Leipzig ruins. Visit to the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and has taken photos of the 150 American soldiers "who were murdered and burned in the prison when our troops were arriving." At Buchenwald, former prisoners now dying from starvation and ill treatment. At Ohrdruf, took a photo of himself with the hanging post where prisoners were tortured: "I walked through the barracks, and they, like the streets of many German towns, were stale and rotten with filth and decay. All around the camp were fences of closely woven barbed wire, about twelve feet high.... all this charged with electricity in case any prisoner got the idea that he might go through. Outside the camp, of course, were the modernistic and smartly appointed quarters in stucco where the SS lived and made jolly and recounted their tales of torture over the dining table in the plush upholstered lounges." Got his first haircut in a month and discovered it was by a member of the Nazi secret police, identified by a Russian DP girl. Old woman talks her way into recovering summer dresses from her house, now occupied by American soldiers, and Langland did not help: "All my natural training of courtesy and politeness might have prompted me to show that much respect for he age at least, but I have seen too much of the German around here. As a German she is still my enemy, and I feel no other way about that."
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