Why did Dwight Eisenhower want people at concentration camps to be photographed?

Answer 1

General Eisenhower understood that many people would be unable to comprehend the full scope of this Horror. He also understood that any human deeds that were so utterly evil might eventually be challenged or even denied as being literally unbelievable.

For these reasons he ordered that all the civilian news media and military combat camera units be required to visit the camps and record their observations in print, pictures and film. As he explained to General Marshall, "I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'Propaganda.'

Answer 2

Allied forces took photos because mass genocide on a industrial scale was unheard of. many people could not fathom such existence of "death camps" so evidence was needed. In this case photographs weres the most easy to produce and viable to spread the 'word' of the death camps. Even a mojor percentage of Germans had no idea that such camps were operating within their own country.

Answer 3

he considered that he would not have believed it had he not seen it, so it was necessary to record it for others who also needed such proof.