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This will be the master project or portal for Concentration Camps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps.
Liberation.
The camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945.
- The first major camp, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets on July 23, 1944.
- Auschwitz was liberated, also by the Soviets, on January 27, 1945;
- Buchenwald by the Americans on April 11;
- Bergen-Belsen by the British on April 15;
- Dachau by the Americans on April 29;
- Ravensbrück by the Soviets on the same day;
- Mauthausen by the Americans on May 5;
- and Theresienstadt by the Soviets on May 8.[22]
- Treblinka, Sobibor, and Bełżec were never liberated, but were destroyed by the Nazis in 1943.
Colonel William W. Quinn of the U.S. 7th Army said of Dachau: "There our troops found sights, sounds, and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal mind."[23][24]
In most of the camps discovered by the Soviets, almost all the prisoners had already been removed, leaving only a few thousand alive—7,000 inmates were found in Auschwitz, including 180 children who had been experimented on by doctors.[25] Some 60,000 prisoners were discovered at Bergen-Belsen by the British 11th Armoured Division,[26] 13,000 corpses lay unburied, and another 10,000 died from typhus or malnutrition over the following weeks ....