Discovery of Concentration Camps

As Allied Forces moved through Nazi Germany they started to find concentration camps filled with thousands of prisoners. Many of the prisoners were forced to march into the camps they were in where they would suffer from starvation and disease. The Soviets were the first to discover the concentration camps once they reached Poland. Once the Soviets reached Poland the Germans tried to hide evidence that they were killing people and started to destroy any evidence of their actions once Allies were moving in. The Germans destroyed most of their camps in 1943 when most of the Jewish population in Poland were killed.  The Soviets were responsible for liberating most of the camps and liberated Auschwitz the biggest concentration camp that sent a lot of people to their deaths. American forces liberated camps near Weimar, Germany and the British liberated many of the ones in northern Germany. A lot of the liberators saw the atrocities of the Germans. It was said that many of the camps had bodies that had not been buried and prisoners were reported to have looked like skeletons from the malnutrition and the intense work the prisoners were put through. In one of the concentration camps, in Buchenwald camp, many of the prisoners who formed a resistance decided to prevent any atrocities the Germans would commit so that Allied forces would arrive to take them. Many of the Germans who was believed to have committed a crime would be put on trial such as those of the Nuremberg Trials.