JANUARY 27, 1945 Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz

[Guno צְבִי]

The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying.

In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the killing center at Auschwitz. Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the camps were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers. It is estimated that the SS and police deported at a minimum 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz complex between 1940 and 1945. Of those deported, the camp authorities murdered 1.1 million, including approximately one million Jews.

Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz | Holocaust Encyclopedia

January 27, 1945. On this date, the Soviet army liberated approximately 7,000 prisoners in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

 

[Cypress]

The Soviet army enters Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz and liberates around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom are ill and dying.

In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its subcamps. SS units forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the killing center at Auschwitz. Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the camps were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers. It is estimated that the SS and police deported at a minimum 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz complex between 1940 and 1945. Of those deported, the camp authorities murdered 1.1 million, including approximately one million Jews.

Soviet Forces Liberate Auschwitz | Holocaust Encyclopedia

January 27, 1945. On this date, the Soviet army liberated approximately 7,000 prisoners in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz.

encyclopedia.ushmm.org

If one is going to say anything good about the Red Army, it's that their lightening rapid advance and destruction of German forces in 1944/45 saved what was left of European Jews.

 

[LurchAddams]

If one is going to say anything good about the Red Army, it's that their lightening rapid advance and destruction of German forces in 1944/45 saved what was left of European Jews.

It also helped that the US stormed the beaches at Normandy and (tragically) nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

[Cypress]

It also helped that the US stormed the beaches at Normandy and (tragically) nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The overall victory needed a collective effort. But Hitler put the death camps in Eastern Europe, so only the Red Army was in a position to reach them.
However, there were some concentration camps back in western Germany that the Americans liberated.

 

[LurchAddams]

The overall victory needed a collective effort. But Hitler put the death camps in Eastern Europe, so only the Red Army was in a position to reach them.
However, there were some concentration camps back in western Germany that the Americans liberated.

Great information.

 

[martin]

If one is going to say anything good about the Red Army, it's that their lightening rapid advance and destruction of German forces in 1944/45 saved what was left of European Jews.

The Seventh Army after crossing the Rhine saved a fair number as well.