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🕯 On April 11, the world marks the International Day of Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps.
It was on this day in 1945 that the prisoners at Buchenwald, one of the Third Reich’s largest concentration camps, started an uprising and heroically held the camp until the arrival of the 3rd US Army. An important role was played by battle-hardened Soviet POWs, who had established a well-organised underground resistance network.
Before and during World War II, the Nazis had created an extensive system of "death factories" both in Germany and in Nazi-occupied territories, where millions of POWs and civilians from the USSR and Europe were imprisoned under inhuman conditions. They were used for hard labour or in some cases as expendable material in heinous medical experiments. They were burned in crematoria and killed in gas chambers.
The liberations began on July 3, 1944, when the Red Army saved prisoners from death at the Majdanek camp near Lublin in Poland, exposing to the world the monstrous scale of Nazi crimes. Later, Soviet forces liberated prisoners at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Rawensbruck and many other "death camps."
❌ The concentration camp system was finally eliminated after the rout of Nazism, with the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg condemning it as a crime against humanity.
#NoStatuteOfLimitation
It was on this day in 1945 that the prisoners at Buchenwald, one of the Third Reich’s largest concentration camps, started an uprising and heroically held the camp until the arrival of the 3rd US Army. An important role was played by battle-hardened Soviet POWs, who had established a well-organised underground resistance network.
Before and during World War II, the Nazis had created an extensive system of "death factories" both in Germany and in Nazi-occupied territories, where millions of POWs and civilians from the USSR and Europe were imprisoned under inhuman conditions. They were used for hard labour or in some cases as expendable material in heinous medical experiments. They were burned in crematoria and killed in gas chambers.
The liberations began on July 3, 1944, when the Red Army saved prisoners from death at the Majdanek camp near Lublin in Poland, exposing to the world the monstrous scale of Nazi crimes. Later, Soviet forces liberated prisoners at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Sachsenhausen, Rawensbruck and many other "death camps."
❌ The concentration camp system was finally eliminated after the rout of Nazism, with the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg condemning it as a crime against humanity.
#NoStatuteOfLimitation
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🕯 The Siege of Leningrad was one of the darkest moments in human history.
According to recent statistics, at least 1,093,842 people died during the blockade. In 2022, the Saint Petersburg City Court recognised the Siege of Leningrad as an act of genocide against the Soviet people committed by the Nazi Germany and its accomplices.
Against all odds the people faced the hardships with unmatched bravery and unwavering resolve.
One of them — Tanya Savicheva who lost all her family during the Siege, writing a diary about her terrible ordeal. Her image and pages from the diary became one the most tragic symbols of those difficult times.
As thousands of people died of starvation during the Nazi blockade, baker Daniel Kutinen worked around the clock to feed the citizens of Leningrad and died of starvation at his workplace.
In May 1942, the local Dynamo and the Leningrad Metal Plant workers played a football match in the Nazi-besieged Leningrad, which became a symbol of the resilience of the city defenders and showed that nothing can break the will of the Soviet people.
In August 1942, Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich’s legendary masterpiece Symphony №7 premiered in Leningrad during the most dire times of the Nazi siege, strengthening the spirit of the people of Leningrad.
✊ The city lived on and did not succumb to the pressure, bombings and starvation.
The Siege was lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive of the Red Army.
#Victory79 #NoStatuteOfLimitation
According to recent statistics, at least 1,093,842 people died during the blockade. In 2022, the Saint Petersburg City Court recognised the Siege of Leningrad as an act of genocide against the Soviet people committed by the Nazi Germany and its accomplices.
Against all odds the people faced the hardships with unmatched bravery and unwavering resolve.
One of them — Tanya Savicheva who lost all her family during the Siege, writing a diary about her terrible ordeal. Her image and pages from the diary became one the most tragic symbols of those difficult times.
As thousands of people died of starvation during the Nazi blockade, baker Daniel Kutinen worked around the clock to feed the citizens of Leningrad and died of starvation at his workplace.
In May 1942, the local Dynamo and the Leningrad Metal Plant workers played a football match in the Nazi-besieged Leningrad, which became a symbol of the resilience of the city defenders and showed that nothing can break the will of the Soviet people.
In August 1942, Soviet composer Dmitry Shostakovich’s legendary masterpiece Symphony №7 premiered in Leningrad during the most dire times of the Nazi siege, strengthening the spirit of the people of Leningrad.
✊ The city lived on and did not succumb to the pressure, bombings and starvation.
The Siege was lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad-Novgorod Offensive of the Red Army.
#Victory79 #NoStatuteOfLimitation