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What Was the Liberation of Nazi Camps?

Beginning in 1933, and during World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators imprisoned millions of people throughout Nazi-occupied Europe in camps. As Allied troops moved through Europe in 1944 and 1945, they liberated tens of thousands of surviving prisoners in horrific conditions inside the camps. Allied soldiers recovered files detailing the hundreds of thousands of prisoner names and causes of death at the camps. This evidence was later used to help convict Nazi perpetrators in post-war trials.

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