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    "All of a sudden America sees these photos that look like concentration camp photos. You see people huddled naked along walls, strapped to benches -- and it really is this descent into this shameful moment. And the country did say, we have to do something about this." - Robert Whitaker, writer
Read the 1946 Life article in its entirety, and see some of the pictures that horrified Americans.

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