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General Dwight D. Eisenhower (center), Supreme Allied Commander, views the corpses of inmates who perished at the Ohrdruf camp. Ohrdruf, Germany, April 12, 1945. See more photographs |
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LIBERATION: 60TH ANNIVERSARY |
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“The things I saw beggar description.... The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were... overpowering....I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give firsthand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to ‘propaganda.’” In the spring of 2005 the world marked the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe—and, with it, the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces. Listed here are dates of liberation of some of the camps: |
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July 24, 1944: Soviet forces liberate Majdanek January 27, 1945: Soviet forces liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau |
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February 13, 1945: Soviet forces liberate Gross-Rosen |
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April 4, 1945: American forces liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald April 11, 1945: American forces liberate Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau April 12, 1945: Canadian forces liberate Westerbork April 15, 1945: British forces liberate Bergen-Belsen April 22, 1945: Soviet forces liberate Sachsenhausen April 23, 1945: American forces liberate Flossenbürg April 29, 1945: Soviet forces liberate Ravensbrück; American forces liberate Dachau May 4, 1945: British forces liberate Neuengamme May 6, 1945: American forces liberate Mauthausen On May 8, 1945, Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender became official. |
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