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On January 27, 1945, Soviet scouts in southern Poland stumbled upon what appeared to be an abandoned Nazi camp near the town of Oświęcim
On January 27, 1945, Soviet scouts in southern Poland stumbled upon what appeared to be an abandoned Nazi camp near the town of Oświęcim  They had no idea that the camp even existed and were stunned to see thousands of emaciated and brutalized prisoners, some barely clinging to life, staring at them through the barbed-wire fence. As one Soviet soldier later recalled, "I remember their faces, especially their eyes which betrayed their ordeal." This was Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest of all the Nazis' concentration camps. When the soldiers entered the camp, there were no guards anywhere to be found. The Nazis had recently abandoned the facility, taking 60,000 prisoners with them and trying to destroy the evidence of the horrors they'd perpetrated there. However, there was far too much evidence to ever conceal and Soviet troops soon uncovered warehouses filled with enormous piles of the shoes, glasses, and other personal belongings of the 1.1 million victims w...