Björn Krondorfer is the director of the Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University. He chairs the national Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies.
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz camp complex in occupied Poland. What the Soviet liberators found was grim enough, but most Auschwitz prisoners still alive in 1945 had already been forced by the Nazis on death marches weeks earlier. An estimated 60,000 of them were brutally driven westward to other camps. Whoever […]
