80 years ago, Allied forces marched deep into the interior of Nazi Germany. CBS News

chronicled their advances. Front reports from Germany tell us that British troops of the second

army are now within seven miles of two important German cities. World War II was coming to an end in Europe,

but the world was only just beginning to discover the horrific scale of the

Holocaust. Permit me to tell you what you would have seen and heard had you been with me on

Thursday. It will not be pleasant listening. If you're at lunch or if you have no appetite to hear

what Germans have done, now is a good time to switch off the radio.

CBS News correspondent Edward R. Murrow was one of the first journalists to report from the Buchenwald concentration camp, an experience he shared with his radio audience.

There were two rows of bodies stacked up like cordwood. They were thin and very white.

Some of the bodies were terribly bruised, though there seemed to be little flesh to bruise.

Some had been shot through the head, but they bled but little.

All except two were naked.

The Buchenwald Memorial estimates more than 50,000 people were killed at the camp.

According to CBS, Murrow was so disturbed by what he saw

that it took him three days to write his report, and still, he worried listeners wouldn't

believe him. I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw

and heard, but only part of it.

For most of it, I have no words.

80 years later, Murrow's fear that people would deny the atrocities he witnessed is becoming more of a reality.

Once fringe ideas of Holocaust denial are spreading.

Multiple members of President Donald Trump's administration have expressed support

for Nazi sympathizers and people who promote anti-Semitism. And fewer survivors of the Holocaust

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