The Liberation Of Auschwitz - Bringing Freedom To The Death Camp

During the Holocaust, Auschwitz would be transformed and developed into a huge and disturbing complex to carry out the evil extermination of those who the Nazis deemed to have been racially inferior. It would be where over 1 million people would perish inside the gas chambers, or from the horrific cruelty and horrendous conditions that the prisoners were held inside. Towards the end of World War 2, the Allies and the Red Army would advance into Nazi-occupied territory and would come across the true evils of the Holocaust, stumbling across different concentration camps. It would be the Soviets or the Red Army who would on the 27th January 1945 enter Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp of the Holocaust. What they would find is what the Nazis would leave behind, thousands of prisoners who were just abandoned and not forced onto death marches towards Germany. These prisoners were left to starve, but in the fierce fighting around the camp, a number of Soviet soldiers would die. Over 200 were killed i