[maryz]

I've never heard that American troops at liberated concentration camps cursed at the prisoners.

I understood that to mean the American troops cursed the monsters who could do that to human beings, not the prisoners.

[justiceseeker93]

I understood that to mean the American troops cursed the monsters who could do that to human beings.

Maybe you have a valid point there. I'm not sure what was meant by that statement.

According to a story that's been passed down from people on the scene, Eisenhower was so incensed by what he saw at Buchenwald that, flouting US military law, he ordered at least one captured German officer who played a big role in the atrocities there to be summarily executed by firing squad.