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Liberation of Auschwitz, near Oswiecim, Southern Poland. 27.01.1945
The 7,500 sick and exhausted prisoners left behind in the camp after the Death March were liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27, 1945. In the second half of 1944, before the Death March of 56,000 prisoners, because of the approach of the Soviet units the Germans began *destroying evidence* of their crimes. They burned FILES, LISTS of deported Jews and SHIPPED OUT items plundered from victims along with large quantities of building materials.
In the last week of the camp’s existence, they blew up the gas chambers and burned down storehouses full of property left behind by the victims of mass extermination.
Liberation of Auschwitz, near Oswiecim, Southern Poland. 27.01.1945
The 7,500 sick and exhausted prisoners left behind in the camp after the Death March were liberated by Soviet soldiers on January 27, 1945. In the second half of 1944, before the Death March of 56,000 prisoners, because of the approach of the Soviet units the Germans began *destroying evidence* of their crimes. They burned FILES, LISTS of deported Jews and SHIPPED OUT items plundered from victims along with large quantities of building materials.
In the last week of the camp’s existence, they blew up the gas chambers and burned down storehouses full of property left behind by the victims of mass extermination.