The Nazis built Buchenwald in Nazi, Germany between 1935 and 1937. Prisoners included political prisoners and ethnic prisoners (Jews and Poles). About 57,000 of the prisoners were murdered or died. Those that survived were freed by the U.S. Army in April 1945.

Bergen-Belsen was located near Hanover, Germany. It was built in 1943 as a detention center for the Jews. During the winter of 1944 it became severely overcrowded. by April 1945, nearly 50,000 people died there of starvation, disease, exhaustion and murder. The camp was liberated by the British troops in April 1945. The troops were shocked to find 60,000 starving and 10,000 unburied corpses.

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