1945 JANUARY 17, 1945
Evacuation of Auschwitz; the prisoners' "Death March" begins.

JANUARY 27, 1945
Soviet troops enter Auschwitz.

APRIL 1945
Russian army enters Germany from east; Allied army enters from west.

APRIL 30, 1945
Hitler commits suicide.

8 MAY
Germany surrenders - the end of the Third Reich.

NOVEMBER 1945- OCTOBER 1946
War crime trials held at Nuremberg, Germany.


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