Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on January 27, 1945. http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/gallery/p538.htm

1945 Soldiers discover bodies at Nordhausen concentration camp. http://carol_fus.tripod.com/army_the_camps.html

Survivors of Dachau concentration camp, May 1945 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/holocaust/timeprint.html

Survivors of Dachau 1945 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3277692,00.html

Liberated prisoners at Ebansee camp, Austria, May 1945 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ebensee_concentration_camp_prisoners_1945.jpg

1945 Child prisoners at Auschwitz just after its liberation. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=482691&in_page_id=1811

Rings found at Buchenwald http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blbuchenwald1.htm

On September 17, 1945, Josef Kramer and 44 members of the camp staff, including 12 of the prisoners who were Kapos, were brought before a British Military Tribunal in the city of Lüneberg. Thirty were convicted. http://www.scrapbookpages.com/BergenBelsen/Museum/Museum01.html

Nuremburg War Trial 1945. Twenty-two major war criminals were tried and sentenced. 12 death sentences, 3 aquittals. More trials were held the following year. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/nurem.htm

   

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