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Liberation
is often imagined as a time of celebration and freedom.
However, survivors in Topic 5 describe a rather different
picture. In this Topic, Edith Birkin describes being
forced to walk in a death march. In 1945, as the end
of the war seemed likely, the Nazis began to force surviving
camp inmates from Poland to Germany on what became known
as death marches. Thousands froze, starved or were shot
on the way. As they left the camps, the Nazis attempted
to hide evidence of their appalling crimes. For example,
they blew up the crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau in
1945.
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