What the records say
- When
- 27 Jan 1945
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 50.03° N, 19.20° E
- Description
- World War II action
Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp
Soviet action during World War II
On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive. Although most of the prisoners had been forced onto a death march, about 7,000 had been left behind.
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