Video: 'Liberating Dachau 1945'
(Sunday, April 29, 1945, approximately 11:30 a.m. CEST; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory southeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich, were liberated today by American troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Dachau liberated 80 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1945)
Video: 'A US soldier talks with liberated prisoners at a Nazi concentration camp in Lands...HD Stock Footage'
(Friday, April 27, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Landsberg, a sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp located in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich, was liberated today by the 12th Armored Division of the United States Army. Continue reading Nazi concentration sub-camps Landsberg, Kaufering liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 27 1945)
Video: 'Memory of the Camps (full documentary) | FRONTLINE' (Apr. 24, 1945, at 19:29/27:57)
(Tuesday, April 24, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Eyewitnesses today provided filmed testimonies of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, liberated Apr. 15, 1945, in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, by British and Canadian troops. Continue reading Eyewitnesses provide filmed testimonies of Nazi atrocities 80 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)
Video: 'Liberation of Flossenburg Concentration Camp'
(Monday, April 23, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia, were liberated today by the U.S. Army. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 23 1945)
Video: 'Hitler's SS in Sachsenhausen... One of the worst Nazi concentration camps'
(Sunday, April 22, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany, (35 km north of the center of Berlin) used primarily for political prisoners, were liberated today by the Red Army and the Polish Army’s 2nd Infantry Division. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 22 1945)
Video: 'N Special Report: Reagan Presents Congressional Gold Medal to Elie Wiesel'
(Friday, April 19, 1985, 11:30-11:51 a.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan listened intently today as Elie Wiesel, chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, implored him to cancel a visit to a German cemetery where Nazi war dead are buried. Continue reading Elie Wiesel urges President Reagan to cancel visit to Nazi cemetery 40 years ago this hour (Apr 19 1985)
Video: 'Memory of the Camps (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
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(Thursday, April 19, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Leipzig-Thekla, a subcamp of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Leipzig, Germany, was liberated today by the U.S. 69th Infantry Division.
The camp had been established in September 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. At its height, Leipzig-Thekla held approximately 1,400 prisoners.
Video: 'Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp — Footage from Liberation // Colorized & Restored'
(Sunday, April 15, 1945, afternoon Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 60,000 (mostly sick) prisoners at the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, were liberated today by British and Canadian troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 15 1945)
Video: 'The HORRIFIC Burning Alive Of The Concentration Camp Prisoners'
(Friday, April 13, 1945 evening Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — German SS and Luftwaffe troops forced 1,016 slave laborers (who were part of a transport evacuated from the Mittelbau-Dora labor camp) into a large barn on the Isenschnibbe estate near the northern German town of Gardelegen, which was then lit on fire. Continue reading Nazis murder 1,016 slave laborers in Gardelegen massacre 80 years ago today (Apr 13 1945)
Video: 'Camp Westerbork: the 'Perfect Camp' in German-Occupied Netherlands in World War II'
(Thursday, April 12, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi transit camp Westerbork near Hooghalen, in the northeastern Netherlands, where Romani and Dutch Jews were assembled for transport to other Nazi concentration camps, was liberated today by Canadian troops. Continue reading Nazi transit camp Westerbork liberated 80 years ago today (Apr 12 1945)
