Allied Liberation of Major Nazi Camps
As Allied troops moved across Europe, they began to encounter and liberate
concentration camps. 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 demolish the camp in an effort to hide the evidence of
mass murder. The Soviets also liberated Auschwitz,
Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck. U.S. forces liberated Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau,
Flossenbuerg, Dachau
and Mauthausen.
British forces liberated camps in northern Germany, including Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen.
Sources: U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum
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