what does anybody know about the liberation of the camps (during the holocaust)?

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Links, bullets of info, anythhing will help

Answer 1

Try these links:

"Biggest Brother: The Life of Maj. Richard Winters" by Larry Alexander

Aftermath of the LIberation (with photos): http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/Liberation/aftermath.html

Mauthausen Liberation (with photos): http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Mauthausen/KZMauthausen/Liberation/index.html

Third Infantry Division in WWII (wtih photos): http://www.warfoto.com/concentr.htm

Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/publications/legdach/intro.99v.htm

Buchenwald inmate Joseph Aleksander's personal account: http://www.1939club.com/LiberationStories.htm

Oliver Lustig's Concentration Camp Directory (Birkenau-Auschwitz and Dachau Holocaust Survivor): http://isurvived.org/Lustig_Oliver-CCDictionary/CCD-15_WZ.html

The 'Liberation of the Camps': Facts vs. Lies by Theodore J. O'Keefe: http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/ftp.py?people//r/roberts.jeff/1996/roberts.0996

Answer 2

Concentration camps were meant to jail "enemies of the Nazi state". Mainly located in Germany and Austria, there many types of immates in concentration camps: Jews, communists, gypsies, people who opposed the Nazi regime. Members of the various resistance groups, in Germany and in the occupied countries, were also sent to concentration camps. Dachua was the first concentration camp and was used to imprision political opponents of the Nazis and many SA members after that organization was purged from the party. Internment camps should not be confused with concentration camps; internment is meant to house citizens of nations that the country is at war with. This would include Americans trapped in Germany and the occupied areas after Hitler declared war on the United States. The death camps, set up in occupied Poland, were meant to kill off the Jewish population of Europe, Hitler's "Final Solution." There were six death camps set up in Poland.