Soviet Forces

As the war was slowly coming to the end the concentration camps were killing as many people as they possibly could. The soviet forces and allies liberated and destroyed many concentration camps starting in the July of 1944. The first and a very major concentration camp to be liberated was Majdanek. Inside that camp there were 9,519 registered prisoners in the camp, 7,468 were Jews and 1,884 were non-Jewish Poles (. In August 1943, there were 16,206 prisoners in the main camp: 9,105 were Jews and 3,893 were Poles. Other prisoners at Majdanek included Germans, Austrians, Czechs, Ukrainians, Soviet prisoners of war and Soviet civilians, and a whole lot of others.

By the time the soviets got there some of the buildings and devices were dismantled very quickly so they wouldn't see everything the nazis were doing. They didn't save many prisoners because they were sent on very very long marches to other camps some were stuffed in trains and some were killed just to save space. But what e soviets would do is invite investigators and people that would deeply research anything that was still left of these mass slaughters and killing. When some top the soldiers would walk on the match trails they would see dead body's all the way over since they would walk miles with no food and water. Overall all the soviet liberated camps were Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. Later on the Soviet forces liberated the Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps in the Baltic states and Poland.

After The U.S joined the liberation process they liberated Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany. On the day of liberation,