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April 15, 1945
On April 15, 1945, bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. Bernard Arcand, Eddy Baldewijns, Gopalkrishna Gandhi would arrive in the same year.
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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas.
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The year in brief
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1945th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 945th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1940s decade.
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On April 15, 1945
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1945 Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. Nazi concentration camp in Germany (1940–1945)
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas.
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Other moments from 1945
- April 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
- April 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- April 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
- April 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.
- April 13 World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.
- April 13 World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
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