International Day of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps

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The International Day of Liberation of the Nazi concentration camps is observed annually on 11 April in Russia, in commemoration of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.[1][2]

The Buchenwald camp, located near Weimar, was one of the largest Nazi concentration camps, housing prisoners who were used for forced labour in armament factories. In early April 1945 when the Allied troops approached, the SS had started evacuating the camp, forcing prisoners to leave on death marches or executing them in the forests outside the camp. One prisoner managed to send a short-wave radio message that was picked up by US Army troops, and the camp was subsequently liberated by the a troop of infantry from the Third US Army, on 11 April.[3]

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  1. ^ Bekus, Nelly (23 September 2015). "Contested Nazi Victimhood after 1989". 1989 after 1989: Rethinking the Fall of State Socialism in Global Perspective. Retrieved 7 December 2021. The date 11th of April is marked by the Russian News Agency RIA as “International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates.” [...] Information on International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates, however, is not to be found in other languages anywhere except the Russian international news agency Sputnik, working in foreign languages (previously known as The Voice of Russia).
  2. ^ "Swastikas daubed on monument in Bulgaria's Stara Zagora". The Sofia Globe. 12 April 2019.
  3. ^ Langbein, Hermann; Zohn, Harry (translator) (1994). Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938–1945. New York: Paragon House. p. 502. ISBN 1-55778-363-2. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
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