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The Soviet Liberation Of Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Red Army finally breached Auschwitz at the beginning of 1945 on January 27. There they discovered a warehouse hoarding the prisoners’ valuables. Among the piles of possessions, they unearthed shoes, crockery, spectacles, and prosthetic limbs. The site was initially presumed to be desolate, until masses of famished and ill victims were found wasting away that the fleeing guards had left to their fates. Georgii Elisavetskii was one Russian veteran who encountered this desperate lot, who ran towards the soldiers hysterically, virtually worshipping those liberating them from hell on Earth.

The Soviet Liberation Of Auschwitz Birkenau