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Liberated prisoners

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📍 Germany

Liberated prisoners

Gender: Male

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US forces reach Buchenwald as prisoners secure the camp

📅 11 April 1945

US forces reached Buchenwald while organised prisoners took control as SS authority collapsed. Sinti and Roma had been confined in the camp and its forced-labour network. Liberation ended imprisonment...

British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen

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British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, where surviving prisoners included Sinti and Roma. They encountered mass death, disease and extreme deprivation. Emergency treatment could not prevent many...