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  • Poland
    Saturday Jan 27, 1945
    The Holocaust

    Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviets

    Poland
    Saturday Jan 27, 1945

    On 17 January 1945, 58,000 Auschwitz inmates were sent on a death march westwards; when the camp was liberated by the Soviets on 27 January, they found just 7,000 inmates in the three main camps and 500 in subcamps.




  • Germany
    Saturday Jan 27, 1945
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels and his wife discussed suicide

    Germany
    Saturday Jan 27, 1945

    He and Magda may have discussed suicide and the fate of their young children in a long meeting on the night of 27 January.




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