• ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Actually it's from page 45 of The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath by Dan Stone if anybody is interested

          • rjs001@lemmygrad.ml
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            1 year ago

            Thanks. I got that book when I looked it up. I couldn’t check myself. Sorry about that and thank you

            • ReadFanon@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              No need to apologise, I just wanted to find the source for myself and when the screenshotted page didn't turn up in the book you mentioned I did a little bit of digging to find the right book so thought I'd make a correction to save others the time/effort of trying to find the source.

  • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    The prisoners were probably terrified because the SS attempted to liquidate Auschwitz ahead of the Soviet advance and shot several thousand prisoners before marching 80,000 away on foot deeper into Germany.

    In their haste and panic they forgot to clear the medical wing, and a few sections of main camp housing, leaving many survivors still in the camp.

    The SS also attempted to blow up the crematorium, but the dynamite failed to explode die to a rushed job.