Cable, Winston Churchill to Dwight D. Eisenhower Regarding Inspection Teams to be Sent to Ohrdruf Camp

In this cable, Winston Churchill advised General Dwight D. Eisenhower that the British Parliament would probably wish to send a second inspection team to view evidence of Nazi atrocities at the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

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TOP SE RET TC D SECRET SHAEF FORWARD STAFF MESSAGE CONTROL INCOMING MESSAGE GSN SHAEF FWD 19/22 TOR 220110B APR TOO 2120262 APR 1Kj 220555B APR T ORSEGREI PRIORITY FROM : AMSSO FROM PRIME MINISTER TO : SHAEF FWD PERSONAL FORGENERALOFITHE ARMIES EISENHOWEIT REF NO : 2554, 21 APRIL 45 (1) I hope that your plans for stottGart have developed in the way you wished. (2) I am sure Parliament would like you to receive another atrocity inspection team, if this is not too great a burden upon you, as soon as the present one returns. SGS Dist No. ACTION : SGS Sc Col DSC 45 Lig CS L DCS VAS Naire CAU DCS AID SGS COCR M FS IN 8174 22 April 45 0616B agd/des REF NO: 2554 OPECE Dec pps Rogan COPY classified 1 NO TOP SECRE 1/20/72 B51211517 THE MAKING OF AN EXACT COPY OF THIS MESSAGE is FORBIDDEN 519