Liberation of Nazi camps On March 22, 1945 the Allies made their first move towards Germany, invading the country. The Allies made their move at the west and the east side of the Rhine River. Even though the Allies had finally broken through the masses of German soldiers there was still a battle, of mind and heart, before them. The Allies have yet to discover what lay ahead of them throughout Germany, concentration camps. The Soviet’s were the first once to come upon a concentration camp and liberate it. This occurred in July 1945 in Poland not far from Lublin, and the camp was called Majdanek. The Soviets came into Germany from the northeast. Now realizing the Soviets were gaining ground and coming toward the concentration camps swiftly, …show more content…
When coming upon Auschwitz the Soviets saw what the men, women, and children had to witness and experience. Victim’s hair, clothing, belongings, shoes, and luggage was found in Auschwitz. The Germans had tried to hide their activities, but failed miserably. On April 6, 1945 the U.S troops liberated Buchenwald just days before the Nazi’s had begun clearing the camp. There were still 20,000 prisoners stationed in Buchenwald. There is hardly a way to describe how those prisoners looked. Life was there, but so subtle and so vacant that one might wonder if there was a purpose for living on. The U.S also liberated Mauthausen, Flossenburg, Dachau, and Dora-Mittelbau. In northern Germany the camps were liberated by the British troops. The two camps named were Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. Bergen-Belsen was liberated in mid-April 1945. The camp still held 60,000 some prisoners which were in the worst critical condition, for a typhus epidemic had broken out among the prisoners. In addition to their suffering from the brutal treatment from the Germens the typhus epidemic killed hundreds of prisoners, including Anna Frank and her sister Margot. The concentration in the Netherlands were liberated by Canadian soldiers, which was the Westerbrok transit