Confronting the Horrors: Allied Soldiers and the Holocaust

April 1945: Western Allies and Soviets are closing-in on Nazi Germany from both sides. The deaths of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler occur within weeks of each other. Harry S. Truman becomes President of the United States, as American generals and journalists witness the horrors of the concentration camps. 

Guests include historian John McManus, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, and historian Rebecca Erbelding.  

Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson reads an excerpt from Paris After the Liberation: 1944-1949.