What was discovered when the concentration camps were liberated?

Answer 1

The Allies found scenes of almost indescribable Horror. The ground was covered with corpses and dying prisoners. Other inmates looked like skeletons covered with skin ... An immediate appeal was issued for Allied soldiers and doctors with first hand experience of famine relief.

Answer 2

When Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, they found only the few thousand pitiful survivors who had been left behind as well as 836,525 items of women clothing, 348,820 items of men clothing, 43,525 pairs of shoes and vast numbers of toothbrushes, glasses and other personal effects. They found also 460 artificial limbs and seven tons of human hair shaved from Jews before they were murdered.

Answer 3

With most camps the allies discovered

-piles of dead bodies, some were in pits and some were on fire.

-The Gas Chambers.

- Lots of Money from different areas e.g. Marks, Euros and Pound Sterling.

- Documents of the killings (Most documents were burned by the SS to cover up evidence.

Answer 4

When Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, they found only the few thousand pitiful survivors who had been left behind as well as 836,525 items of women clothing, 348,820 items of men clothing, 43,525 pairs of shoes and vast numbers of toothbrushes, glasses and other personal effects. They found also 460 artificial limbs and seven tons of human hair shaved from Jews before they were murdered. The human hairs were used by the company "Alex Zink" (located in Bavaria) for confection of cloth. This company was paying the Nazi's 50 pfennig per kilo of human hair.

Of those who received numbers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, only 65,000 survived. It is estimated that only about 200,000 people who passed through the Auschwitz camps survived.

Answer 5

On the main site they found about 7,500 desperately malnourised prisoners, many of them very ill and dying. They also found what was left of the gas chambers and crematoria.

Answer 6

The Americans never got to Auschwitz.

Answer 7

starving jews

Answer 8

thousands of sick and dieing people.