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Liberation

Towards the end of 1944, Allied forces were making considerable progress deep into German-occupied territory and Germany itself. Russian troops were the first to discover the extent of the Nazi atrocities when they liberated camps in Poland in late 1944.

By early 1945, British and American troops were pressing into Germany from the West, and made swift advances throughout March.

On 11 April 1945, American forces discovered the concentration camp at Buchenwald and found things worse than they had seen throughout the whole war.
   
 
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