Adolf Hitler timeline
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Ravensbrück Concentration Camp is Liberated by Soviet Troops
Camp authorities initiated a second round of killings at such “euthanasia” killing centers later in 1942, continuing until 1944. During this phase,... Read more
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Partisan Units Liberate Jasenovac Concentration Camp from the Ustaše
In April 1945, as Partisan units approached the camp, the Ustaše camp supervisors attempted to erase traces of the atrocities by working the death... Read more
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U.S. 89th Infantry Division Liberates Ohrdruf, the First Sub-Camp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Complex
. . .the most interesting--although horrible--sight that I encountered during the trip was a visit to a German internment camp near Gotha. The... Read more
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Westerbok Concentration Camp is Liberated by the Canadian 2nd Infantry Division
The Westerbork camp had a "double life." While most inmates stayed in the camp for only short periods of time before being deported, there was also... Read more
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Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp is Liberated by British Forces
On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen. The British found around sixty thousand prisoners in the camp, most of them seriously... Read more
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp is Liberated by the Red Army and the Polish 2nd Infantry Division of Ludowe Wojsko Polskie
Soviet forces liberated the Sachsenhausen camp itself on April 22, 1945. They found only about 3,000 ill and weak prisoners in the camp.... Read more
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Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
During the night of 28 April, General Wenck reported that his Twelfth Army had been forced back along the entire front. Wenck noted that no further... Read more
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British Soldiers Liberate Neuengamme Concentration Camp
Due to the demolition of the Neuengamme camp and its records by the SS in 1945 and the transportation of inmates to other subcamps or other working... Read more
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U.S. 11th Armored Division Liberates Mauthausen Concentration Camp
During the final months before liberation, the camp's commander Franz Ziereis prepared for its defence against a possible Soviet offensive. Most of... Read more
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Soviet Forces Liberate Stutthof Concentration Camp
In late April 1945, the remaining prisoners were removed from Stutthof by sea, since Stutthof was completely encircled by Soviet forces. Again,... Read more
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Soviet Troops Liberate Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
After again visiting the camp on April 6 and April 21, 1945, the International Red Cross took over its administration on May 2, 1945. SS... Read more
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DNA Tests Reveal Skull Fragment Thought to Belong to Adolf Hitler is Actually from an Unidentified Female
US archaeologist Nick Bellantoni found fragments from the skull believed to be Hitler's were too thin to be from a male, and suspected it was the... Read more
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