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Discuss the events and implications of the "liberation of the Nazi camps" after the Holocaust? Include dates, camp names, main events, countries involved, etc.

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Discusses the events and implications of the "liberation of the Nazi camps" after the Holocaust, including dates, camp names, main events, countries involved, etc. Reference and an extra link for further research are also provided.

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1. Discuss the events and implications of the "liberation of the Nazi camps" after the Holocaust, including dates, camp names, main events, countries involved, etc.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has many interesting articles and pictures of the Holocaust. See attached picture of a mass grave soon after camp liberation. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, May 1945.

LIBERATION OF NAZI CAMPS

As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter concentration camp prisoners. Many of these prisoners had survived death marches into the interior of Germany. Soviet forces were the first to approach a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance, the Germans attempted to hide the evidence of mass murder by demolishing the camp. Camp staff set fire to ...

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