Friday will mark the 78th anniversary of the haunting winter afternoon when Red Army troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people (the vast majority of them Jews, but also political prisoners and Roma people) had been murdered.
to the Nazi practice of using poison gas to commit mass murder in 1941, before the first of the death camps in Poland opened the following year. Hundreds of thousands of Jews would be murdered there and in a camp that, by 1944, had expanded into a vast labor colony and killing factory known as Auschwitz-Birkenau.
It was the Red Army’s relentless advance that expelled Hitler’s forces from its conquered lands in Eastern Europe, including Poland, leading to the eventual liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau by the 322nd Rifle Division of Russia's 60th Army. Both American and British authorities had known what had been taking place at Auschwitz, but they had refused to bomb the rail lines that brought thousands of Jews daily from across Europe to their deaths.
Victory over Nazism remains central to Russian identity; the conflict is known in Russia as the"Great Patriotic War."
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