 General Eisenhower left rotting corpses unburied so a visiting group of US legislators could truly understand the horror of the atrocities.This group visited Buchenwald on 24 April 1945 to inspect the camp and learn firsthand about the enormity of the Nazi Final Solution and treatment of other prisoners.The legislators included Alben W. Barkley, Ed Izac, John M. Vorys, Dewey Short, C. Wayland Brooks, and Kenneth S. Wherry, along with General Omar Bradley and journalists Joseph Pulitzer, Norman Chandler, William I. Nichols, and Julius Ochs Adler.