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Concentration camp cemetery for the Kaufering IX – Obermeitingen concentration camp remote camp – unknown. Concentration camp cemetery for the Kaufering V and X – Utting remote camp (on the connecting road from Utting to Holzhausen) 48°00′51″N 11°05′10″E / 48.01409°N 11.08612°E / 48.01409; 11.08612 ...
A group of child survivors at Auschwitz on the day of the camp’s liberation by the Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945. Hitler’s regime systematically murdered 6 million Jews during World War II ...
The prisoners of Dachau concentration camp originally were to serve as forced labor for a munition factory, and to expand the camp. It was used as a training center for the SS-Totenkopfverbände guards and was a model for other concentration camps. [36] The camp was about 300 m × 600 m (1,000 ft × 2,000 ft) in rectangular shape.
Edward Shames and his men from the Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, were the first to go into Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. [18] Once inside, Shames took 2 bottles of Cognac bearing a label that said “For the Führer’s use only” [ 19 ] [ 20 ] in Kehlsteinhaus was ...
It has been 80 years since the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration complex. First established in 1940, Auschwitz had a concentration camp, large gas chambers, and ...
It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million ...
During the Dachau liberation reprisals, [Note 2] German SS troops were killed by outraged U.S. soldiers and concentration camp prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945, during World War II. It is unclear how many SS guards were killed in the incident, but most estimates place the number killed at around 35–50.
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.