When did the Allies find the concentration camps?

Answer 1

The Allies found out from different sources. Jews who escaped capture, and renegade German soldiers etc. The problem was is that no one could believe that anyone could be that evil. The Americans that came in and liberated the camps were stricken. They could not believe what they found. We can talk all we want to about the serial murders that have existed over time. No one compares to the Nazi's and the scope of their murders.

The History Man

Answer 2

After a little while when they found them, they threatened to kill all the people working in the camp, if they did not let the people free who had to be prisoners in the Concentration Camp (and that was known as theair day of Liberty).

Answer 3

I will assume you are referring to the treatment of POWs. ?About 80 percent of the German land forces was made up of Army soldiers (Heer) and generally the Geneva convention was enforced by the Heer, especially against the western allies. The Heer had large amounts of German military personnel that were in POW camps and wanted their soldiers treated decently, also. So generally Western Allied soldiers caught could expect to be treated descently.

The SS Combat Forces, separate branch from the concentration camp SS, drew their combat experience from the eastern front, where surrendering to the Russians, just wasnt a option. As a result, Allies didnt take alot of SS prisoners and vice versa, but the SS Combat forces were a small part of the Wehrmacht (German Military Forces).

From what I have read the average allied soldier didn't know much of the concetration camps until he came across them during the advance thru Europe. I suspect that the Allied Senior Commanders knew of the camps, but could do little until they owned the captured the camps.

Answer 4

Through the media. There were reports in the press about ordinary concentration camps like Dachau from March 1933 on. These camps were not secret, though precise details were hush-hush.

Reports about extermination (though not usually about camps) appeared in the media from about November 1942 on.

Answer 5

During the attack on Germany itself, the Allied forces liberated/conquered villages. They just found the concentration camps.

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They knew about the existence of the camps since they were opened in 1933, six years before the war started, they could also see new ones from aerial reconnaissance photos, it is what was happening inside them that was the surprise (which they found out about years before liberating them).

Answer 6

From July 1944 onwards.