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The Allied army that first entered a death camp (extermination camp) was the Soviet Army, which liberated Majdanek in July, 1944. The existence of extermination camps had been known before that, however. Death Camps! Every Allied army liberated death camps. They existed in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Most of the German camps, Buchenwald, Dachau and others were liberated by the French and Americans, while Auschwitz and Theresianstadt were liberated by the Russians. Their existence were only known since 1943, two years before their liberation.
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What happend to those who avoided death in consentration camps?
the people who avoided death where ither normal people or where left to starve or they fled and found a place to hide until the liberation.
How did Hitler try to cover up mass death in the first year the camps opened?
Please note that the cover up lasted for the entire period 1941-45. The victims weren't told they were being sent to death camps, simply that they were being "relocated". In the early stages, they sometimes had to send postcards to any next of kin still at home to say that they had arrived safely. Incidentally, the extermination camps were located in Poland; they weren't just down the road from Germany as it were. Towards the end, they hid the camps by burying the bodies, planting trees, etc.
Us death toll of World War 2?
405,400 was the count I found in a U.S. History book.
How did the British react when they found out about the Holocaust?
Britains response was of anger and disgust. The camps were kept a secret from the outside world until 1944 when some of the first were found and in 1945 Belsen was discovered. My grandad was an engineer in WW2 and he was one of the first to walk into Belsen. When he walked out he never talked about what he saw. we only found this out when he died and we were reading his military records. The feeling would of been the same for all soldiers and civilians who entered these "camps". The governments reaction was to put all Nazi leaders on trial when the war was won. The Nuremburg trials.
Did anybody find or dig up the bodies that were buried in the ground at the death camps of the Holocaust?
The bodies were carefully photographed after the liberation of the death camps. After photographic evidence of the horrors of the camps, the remains were buried with as much dignity as the troups could muster. ___ At many of the extermination camps, such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Majdanek most of the corpses were cremated. Some 'ordinary' concentration camps also had crematoria. Disposing of the corpses was a problem for the Nazis. Recently there have been large scale achaelogical excavations ar Belzec in eastern Poland (not to be confused with Belsen). At Belzec eleven vast mass graves with human remains have been found, each containing the remains of over 10,000 bodies. There are almost certainly more such graves there, but for the time being the 'dig' has ceased.
Where were most death camps found?
germany ____ No, actually in German-occupied Poland.
How was Anne frank able to write in the camps?
No. Her diary was found in Amsterdam several years after her death. She was lucky to have a crust of bread to eat in the camps.
What were concentration camps and where they found?
concentration camps were places where Jews were kept in the 2nd world war and then the used to get killed there
What propaganda was found in concentration camps?
Not sure what you mean by propoganda...? Mostly what was found were dead bodies and survivors who were slowly starving to death. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
What occurred after the liberation of the death camps when people found out about the Holocaust?
Support for an independent Jewish homeland increased.
What was the total number of concentration camps found after world war 2?
About 1,550.
Why did the Nazis move the Jews and destroy the death camps before the Russian army arrived?
The Holocaust had been kept secret by the Nazis as far as possible. They knew that it did not have the active support of the majority of Germans. They knew that they had committed appalling atrocities and wanted to hide them from the rest of the world. _____________ Well, because they knew if the Russians knew about the holocaust they had created, they'd all be in big trouble. The holocaust was hidden, no one really knew, and during that time period (and some now) people doubted the fact it happened. After the war, people like Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess were hanged for war crimes. ______________ Actually the US government and other governments around the world new about the Concentration Camps/Labor Camps, it just wasn't public knowledge. The Allies did not know about the Death Camps though, so the Germans spend the last years of the war trying to eliminate the Jews (They blamed the Jews for defeat in WW1) via mass slaughter at the Death Camps. Germans did not want the allies to find out out about the death camps, so they tried to destroy them. The Russians found the first Death Camps, as the majority were in Poland, since Poland had a high Jewish Population. Around 3 million Polish Jews were killed at the Death Camps. Anyway, the Nazis destroyed the death camps (or tried to), since they didn't want the rest of the world finding out about them.
What happend to those who avoided death in consentration camps?
the people who avoided death where ither normal people or where left to starve or they fled and found a place to hide until the liberation.
What type of warfare was used in the Allied invasion of Italy and how many Allied troops were in the invasion?
Allied troops found many death and concentration camps.
Why were the camps infamous?
because of what was found in them.
Was the Holocaust a turning point in how the Allies responded to Germany during WW2 and if so why?
It wasn't. We unfortunately did not get confirmation about this horrid massacre until the first camps were found in Europe. The Holocaust revealed horrifying amounts of cruelty and death that the Nazis brought on people.
How did Hitler try to cover up mass death in the first year the camps opened?
Please note that the cover up lasted for the entire period 1941-45. The victims weren't told they were being sent to death camps, simply that they were being "relocated". In the early stages, they sometimes had to send postcards to any next of kin still at home to say that they had arrived safely. Incidentally, the extermination camps were located in Poland; they weren't just down the road from Germany as it were. Towards the end, they hid the camps by burying the bodies, planting trees, etc.
