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The Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945.

Heinrich Himmler

Heinrich Himmler, one of the main leaders of the Nazi Party, who was head of the SS and directly responsible for the Holocaust. Himmler was a somber character, a fan of Aryan mysticism, who committed suicide by ingesting a cyanide capsule in May 1945, avoiding being judged for his war crimes.

"Behind the enemy powers: the Jew"

During World War II, Nazi propagandists frequently described "the Jew" as a conspirator plotting world domination by acting behind the scenes in nations at war with Germany. This caricature represents the "Jewish financier" who manipulates the Allies, Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union.

The "Final Solution" to the Jewish question

On February 26, 1942, a letter addressed to the German diplomat Martin Luther, was written by Reinhard Heydrich during the Wannsee Conference to request Luther administrative assistance for the implementation of the "Final solution to the Jewish question".

Letter from Hermann Göering to Reinhard Heydrich about the final solution

"Complementing the task entrusted to him in the edict dated January 24, 1939, and which consists in resolving the Jewish question in the most convenient way possible, given the present conditions, by means of emigration, or evacuation, I commissioned him to make the necessary preparations related to the organization and the practical and material aspects, in order to achieve a global solution [Gesamtlösung] of the Jewish question in the German spheres of influence in Europe.

To the extent that this concerns the competencies of other central instances, these should be involved.

I also ask him to quickly submit to me a comprehensive plan of practical material and organizational measures for the execution of the desired final solution [Endloesung] of the Jewish question.

The emptying of Krakow

Jewish families are heading towards the Prokocim railway station for their "resettlement". Destination of the same: Auschwitz, March 1943.

The arrival to hell

Jews coming from the Carpathians upon their arrival at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Entrance to Auschwitz I

Nazi Germany built from 1940 several concentration camps and an extermination camp in Auschwitz that, like the rest of the concentration camps, were administered by the SS, under the command of Heinrich Himmler.

Aerial view of the Auschwitz concentration camp

Photograph taken in 1944 by the RAF - Royal Air Force - of the British Army of the Auschwitz concentration camp - Birkenau.

Weimar, Buchenwald, Germany

The bones of German women opposed to the national socialist regime are still found in the crematories of the Weimar concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany. Prisoners of all nationalities were also tortured and killed. The photograph was taken by the one taken by the US Army on April 14, 1945.

Slaves in Buchenwald

These Soviet, Polish and Dutch slave workers, interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp, entered the camp with an average of 73 kilograms each. After 11 months, his average weight was 31 kilograms. March 16, 1945.

Nordhausen, Germany

Hundreds of bodies of prisoners killed by starvation or shot by the Gestapo lie on the ground after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp (April 12, 1945).

Bergen-Belsen, Germany

Image of the day of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, April 1945, in which one of the common graves partially filled with corpses can be seen.

Buchenwald, Germany

Surviving children of the Buchenwald concentration camp. They are dressed in German uniforms due to the shortage of clothes.

Commemorative plaque at the entrance of the Auschwitz extermination camp

You can read: "Forever let this place be a cry of helplessness, a warning to humanity, where the Nazis murdered around one and a half million men, women and children, mostly Jews from different countries of Europe. »

The Monument to Jews Murdered in Europe, Berlin, Germany

Also known as the Holocaust-Mahnmal or the Holocaust Memorial, it is a monument reminiscent in Berlin of the Jews victims of the Holocaust.

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This tells us, that between 1933 and 1945, during the Nazi regime in Germany, the world went through a period of unprecedented destruction and persecution. The Second World War represents the greatest conflict that humanity has ever experienced; Illegal detentions, deportations and death were its consequences.

According to the information kept in the archives of the Russian FSB - Federal Security Service - the former KGB - Committee for State Security, the name of the intelligence agency and the secret police of the Soviet Union - the SS - Schutzstaffel - They murdered more than 4 million inmates in Auschwitz. This was the main organization responsible for the genocidal murder and ethnic cleansing that took place during the duration of the regime of Adolph Hitler and the Second World War, a period in which it is estimated that around 6 million people of different European ethnic minorities died , essentially Jews.

On January 27, 1945, with the end of World War II just around the corner and the Allied troops increasingly encircling the German army, Soviet troops arrived at the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, free the 2,819 survivors who were there.

That is why every year, around this date, UNESCO pays tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust and ratifies its commitment to fight against anti-Semitism, racism and any other form of intolerance that could lead to violent acts against certain human groups. This date now represents the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.

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