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Dmitry,
DP>WD> Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated on January 27, 1945, by soldiers of
DP>WD> the Soviet Red Army. The 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front reached
DP>WD> the extermination camp that afternoon, finding approximately 7,000
DP>WD> surviving prisoners. This date is now International Holocaust
DP>WD> Remembrance Day.
DP> Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by the 100th Lviv Rifle Division under
DP> the command of General Fyodor Krasavin. He himself spent several years in
DP> the Soviet GULAG before the war and was freed only in 1942, after which
DP> he was promoted to general because of his achievements. His wife was also
DP> arrested and died in the GULAG.
This is what the museum in Auschwitz itself has to say ...
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/liberation/day-of-liberation/
"Soldiers of the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front opened
the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp on January 27, 1945.
The prisoners greeted them as authentic liberators. It was a
paradox of history that soldiers formally representing
Stalinist totalitarianism brought freedom to the prisoners of
Nazi totalitarianism."
Maybe it`s all the same ... an army and its subdivisions ...
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