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INITIAL ENCOUNTERS

Witness the powerful moments of liberation as Allied forces bring hope and healing to survivors of Nazi concentration camps in 1945.

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INITIAL ENCOUNTERS

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  1. Between 1933 and 1945, the Germangovernment led by Adolf Hitler and theNazi Party carried out the systematicpersecution and murder of Europe’s Jews.This genocide is now knownas the Holocaust.

  2. The Nazi regime also persecuted and killedmillions of other people it consideredpolitically, racially, or socially unfit.

  3. The Allies’ victory ended World War II, butNazi Germany and its collaborators had leftmillions dead and countless lives shattered.

  4. LIBERATION 1945 Inmates waving a homemade American flag greet 7th Army troops upon their arrival at the Allach concentration camp, a subcamp of Dachau. INITIAL ENCOUNTERS

  5. LIBERATION 1945 Women and children in the Mauthausen concentration camp speak through the barbed wire to an American soldier. INITIAL ENCOUNTERS

  6. LIBERATION 1945 Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp cheer the soldiers of the 11th Armored Division of the 3rd Army one day after liberation. INITIAL ENCOUNTERS

  7. LIBERATION 1945 A survivor shows American troops of the 46th Armored Division, 9th Army, the watchtowers and the electrically charged barbed wire fence in the Buchenwald concentration camp. REALITIES

  8. LIBERATION 1945 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and other high-ranking U.S. Army officers view the bodies of prisoners killed by the German camp authorities during the evacuation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. REALITIES

  9. LIBERATION 1945 A group of survivors sits outside a barracks in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. REALITIES

  10. LIBERATION 1945 American medical personnel evacuate survivors from Langenstein, a subcamp of Buchenwald, to a hospital for treatment. HELPING AND HEALING

  11. LIBERATION 1945 Recently liberated survivors in the Wöbbelin concentration camp support and help each other. HELPING AND HEALING

  12. LIBERATION 1945 U.S. Army medical personnel with the 10th ArmoredDivision distribute food to two survivors liberatedfrom a concentration camp. HELPING AND HEALING

  13. LIBERATION 1945 American chaplain Rabbi Herschel Schacter conductsa religious service for Jewish survivors of the Buchen-wald concentration camp shortly after liberation. HELPING AND HEALING

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