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| 18/01/1945 |
Nazis evacuate 66,000 inmates from Auschwitz back into Germany. |
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27/01/1945 |
Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. |
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04/04/1945 |
Ohrdruf camp is liberated by the Americans. |
| 10/04/1945 |
Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated by the Allies. |
| 15/04/1945 |
British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp and free approximately 40,000 prisoners. It is reported that "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth." |
| 29/04/1945 |
The U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau Concentration Camp. |
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| 02/05/1945 |
Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross. |
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05/05/1945 |
Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated. |
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29/08/1945 |
The lists of the first war criminals to be tried at Nuremberg are drawn up by a 'Four Power' Commission of Prosecutors in London. Goring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Dr Ley, Rosenberg, Dr Frank, Streicher, Keitel, Dr Funk, von Shirach, Dr Schacht, Sauckel, Prof Speer, Bormann, von Papen, Jodl, Krupp, Raeder, Donitz, Baron von Neurath, Seyss-Inquart and Frische are all named. |
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18/10/1945 |
The first open session of the International Military War Crimes Tribunal indicts 21 top Nazis. |
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20/11/1945
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The Nuremberg trials begin, with Goring, Ribbentrop, Hess, Keitel, JodI, Raeder, Doenitz, Streicher and other top Nazis on trial. |
| 21/11/1945 |
All the top ranking Nazis at Nuremberg plead innocent. |
| 29/11/1945 |
Films of concentration camp atrocities are shown at the Nuremberg trials. |
| 30/11/1945 |
Rudolph Hess causes consternation at the Nuremberg trials by announcing that he has been shamming insanity and amnesia all this time. |
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14/12/1945 |
SS personnel convicted of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps, are hanged. |
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