“They Thought the War Was Over — Until They Opened the Gates: The Unbelievable Words of American Soldiers Who Stumbled Upon the Nazi Camps and Realized What They Had Truly Been Fighting For, in the Forgotten Testimonies That Still Echo as the Most Haunting Discovery of World War II” The war was supposed to be ending. That was what the radio said, what the commanders said, what the men believed as they crossed into Germany in the spring of 1945. But for many American soldiers, the war didn’t trul