With his report on the situation of Jewish survivors in August 1945, the lawyer Earl G. Harrison shook the US public. He compared the living conditions in the DP camps to those in the concentration camps: “Beyond knowing that they [the Jewish survivors in the DP camps] are no longer in danger of the gas chambers, torture, and other forms of violent death, they see – and there is – little change” (6.1.1/82495798/ITS Digital Archive, Arolsen Archives). He continued: “The first and plainest need of these people is a recognition of their actual status and by this I mean their status as Jews. Most of them have spent years in the worst of the concentration camps. In many cases [...] they are the sole survivors of their families and many have been through the agony of witnessing the destruction of their loved ones. Understandably, therefore, their present condition, physical and mental, is far worse than that of other groups. [...] Jews as Jews (not as members of their nationality groups) have been more severely victimized than the non-Jewish members of the same or other nationalities” (6.1.1./82495799/ITS Digital Archive, Arolsen Archives).