- Newly-discovered letters from Army doctor Captain David Wilsey offer dramatic first-hand account of horrors after liberation of Nazi death camp
- Capt Wilsey told his wife that soldiers had shot SS 'beasts' against a wall and said: 'I saw it done without a single emotion'
- He helped GIs who tortured the SS guards before their death and described how combat engineer avenged a brother's death by shooting three Nazis
- Doctor was credited with saving thousands of lives in combat and never spoke of horrors he saw in wartime experience
- Daughter, of Eugene, Oregon, found letters, published in the New Republic, after his death
- WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
"Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing." – Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005
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