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Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp

1945 CE · Poland, Europe · War

Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
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On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive.

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