This week in Jewish history | Mauthausen concentration camp liberated
This week in Jewish history | Mauthausen concentration camp liberated 04 May 2021 share this on (c) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mauthausen camp survivors cheer American soldiers soon after their liberation On 5 May 1945, American forces liberated the Mauthausen concentration camp. The liberation took place as World War II was coming to an end, as Nazi Germany would surrender to Allied forces in the coming days. Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler, General Oswald Pohl, and SS General Theodor Eicke, the Inspector of Concentration Camps, examined...
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