Discovery of the Camps( Allied)
As the Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against the Nazi forces , they began to come in counter with the reason they were fighting this war. They found dozens of concentration camps filled with prisoners who were starving and had many diseases
Soviet forces were the first to approach a major concentration camp called Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July of 1944 the Germans decided to hide the evidence with mass murders burning the buildings trying to hide what they have done. In the summer of 1944 also over ran Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943, after most of the Jews of Poland had already been killed.
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the soviets liberated Auschwitz in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz to march westward (which would be called the death marches ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9GzQc2s6oUS forces liberated the Butchwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. On the day of liberation, an underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of Buchenwald to prevent atrocities by the retreating camp guards. American forces liberated more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald. They also liberated Doramitttlbau,Flossen burg Dachau, and Mauthausen
British forces liberated concentration camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen Belsen. They entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, in mid-April 1945. Some 60,000 prisoners, most in critical condition because of a typhus epidemic, were found alive. More than 10,000 of them died from the effects of malnutrition or disease within a few weeks of liberation.
Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied. Only after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment. Many were so weak that they could hardly move. Disease remained an ever-present danger, and many of the camps had to be burned down to prevent the spread of epidemics. Survivors of the camps faced a long and difficult road to recovery.
Soviet forces were the first to approach a major concentration camp called Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July of 1944 the Germans decided to hide the evidence with mass murders burning the buildings trying to hide what they have done. In the summer of 1944 also over ran Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943, after most of the Jews of Poland had already been killed.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131
the soviets liberated Auschwitz in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz to march westward (which would be called the death marches ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk9GzQc2s6oUS forces liberated the Butchwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp. On the day of liberation, an underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of Buchenwald to prevent atrocities by the retreating camp guards. American forces liberated more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald. They also liberated Doramitttlbau,Flossen burg Dachau, and Mauthausen
British forces liberated concentration camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen Belsen. They entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, near Celle, in mid-April 1945. Some 60,000 prisoners, most in critical condition because of a typhus epidemic, were found alive. More than 10,000 of them died from the effects of malnutrition or disease within a few weeks of liberation.
Liberators confronted unspeakable conditions in the Nazi camps, where piles of corpses lay unburied. Only after the liberation of these camps was the full scope of Nazi horrors exposed to the world. The small percentage of inmates who survived resembled skeletons because of the demands of forced labor and the lack of food, compounded by months and years of maltreatment. Many were so weak that they could hardly move. Disease remained an ever-present danger, and many of the camps had to be burned down to prevent the spread of epidemics. Survivors of the camps faced a long and difficult road to recovery.