How did different allied armies treat people liberated from concentration camps

by jh-2018

Hi I just finished watching a WW2 movie and it made me start thinking how did the different allied countries react to the concentration camps and what they did. I’d like to know specifically how the soldiers from different nations treated the liberated Jews. Thanks for your time

voyeur324

From 1933 to 1944, most of the time most of the prisoners in most concentration camps were not Jewish. "People liberated from concentration camps" is a much broader category than "Jews liberated from concentration camps." Different prisoner groups were treated differently upon liberation, as you shall see.

Note that KL is an abbreviation for "konzentrationlager", the German word for concentration camp, also referred to as KZ. Many of these answers arrive at your question indirectly. The #1 book on this topic in the subreddit booklist is The Liberation of the Camps by Dan Stone. Buying books at the links in the booklist helps support the subreddit's operations.

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