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		JANUARY 27th 1945 Aushwitz Liberated
				Soviet forces liberated the largest German concentration/death camp Aushwitz. The Germans had killed 2,500,000 at Auschwitz, the great majority of which were Jews. By April, the full horrow of the Holcaust had become clear when US forces liberated the concentration camps of Bergen Belson and Dachau.