At the end of World War II, American soldiers liberating the Nazi concentration camps were met with scenes of horror. The prisoners were walking skeletons. Some showed signs of torture. Naked, dead bodies were “stacked like cordwood,” while others littered the ground. In the camp of Ohrdruf, General Eisenhower wanted to show General Patton a pile of about 30 decomposing bodies in a shed. Patton demurred. The sights and stench of the camp had already caused him to vomit.