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Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions
Liberation of Majdanek
Liberation of Majdanek
Liberation of Majdanek
Poland
July 1944
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In July 1944, Soviet forces liberated the Majdanek extermination camp. The Polish-Soviet Nazi Crimes Investigation Commission, established to document Nazi atrocities committed during the German occupation of Poland, ordered exhumations at Majdanek as part of its efforts to investigate Nazi mass killings in the camp. The commission later published its findings in Moscow on September 16, 1944, in Polish, Russian, English, and French.
 
 
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