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 | 1945-05-23 | Himmler commits suicide | Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide after being captured by a British Army unit in Bremen. He was scheduled to stand trial at Nuremburg for war crimes. | Read about 'Himmler commits suicide' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Himmler commits suicide' | |
| 1945-05-09 | Stutthof Liberated | Stutthof, the first concentration camp built inside Germany, was the last liberated by Allied forces. Soviet troops arrive to find 100 prisoners still alive. Of the 110,000 deported there during the war over 85,000 had died. | Read about 'Stutthof Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Stutthof Liberated' | |
| 1945-05-05 | Mauthausen-Gusen Librated | The 41st Recon Squad of the US 11th Armored Division led by S/SGT Albert J. Kosiek arrive at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. It had been one of the largest labour camps in Europe and had resulted in the deaths of between 122,766 and 320,000 inmates. | Read about 'Mauthausen-Gusen Librated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Mauthausen-Gusen Librated' | |
| 1945-05-04 | Neuengamme Liberated | British troops liberated Neuengamme concentration camp. Over half of it's 106,000 inmates had died by the end of the war. | Read about 'Neuengamme Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Neuengamme Liberated' | |
| 1945-05-02 | Wobbelin Liberated | Troops from the 82nd airborne division liberate Wobbelin Concentration Camp. They discover the bodies of over 1000 inmates. | Read about 'Wobbelin Liberated ' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Wobbelin Liberated ' | |
| 1945-04-29 | Dachau Liberated | Troops from the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army liberate Dachau concentration camp. They discover approximately 32,000 prisoners, crammed 1,600 to each of 20 barracks, which had been designed to house 250 people each. | Read about 'Dachau Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Dachau Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-22 | Jasenovac Prisoner Revolt | As Partisan units approached, 600 prisoners revolted. 520 were killed and 80 escaped. | Read about 'Jasenovac Prisoner Revolt' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Jasenovac Prisoner Revolt' | |
| 1945-04-11 | Buchenwald Liberated | US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the first and largest concentration camp on German soil | Read about 'Buchenwald Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Buchenwald Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-04 | Ohrdruf | Troops from the 4th Armored Division and the 89th Infantry Division liberate Ohrdruf concentration camp near Weimar in Germany. It was part of the Buchenwald concentration camp network and was the first camp liberated by US forces. | Read about 'Ohrdruf' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Ohrdruf' | |
| 1945-01-27 | Auschwitz Liberated | Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Over one million men, women and children had been murdered at the camp since it's creation in 1940. | Read about 'Auschwitz Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Auschwitz Liberated' |
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