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When did Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz?
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Auschwitz
The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Kraków, Poland; the sign reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”).
Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945. Upon their arrival, they found approximately 7,650 sick or starving prisoners who had been left behind when the Nazis abandoned the camp and forced most other inmates on "death marches" earlier that month.12