This Website is credible because its a ".org", its made by the holocaust museum, and you can visit them.
This website is credible because its ".mil", website is made by the US army, and there's contact info.
This website is credible because there's contact info, more than three working links, and it was last published this year.
What I learned from these Websites
Website Number 1: As American soldiers were moving across Europe in offense the Germany they came across thousands of Concentration camp prisoners. They survived the forced marches from camps into occupied Poland. These prisoners were starving and had diseases. Soviet forces came across the first concentration camp. reaching Majdanek near Lublin, Poland, in July 1944. Surprised by the rapid Soviet advance, the Germans attenpted to hide the mass murder by demolishing the camps.
Camp staff set fire to the large crematorium used to burn bodies. The soviets ran some of these camps. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943. Most of the Jews in Poland were murdered. The Soviets came across Auschwitz.
The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"), and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp. There was plenty of evidence at Auschwitz of mass murder. The Germans destroyed a lot of the warehouses in the camps, but soviets found personal belongings of the victims. US forces later liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. An underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of the camp. They liberated more than 20,000 prisoners. They came across horrible conditions in the camps. There were piles of corpses that weren't buried. After these liberation the horrors were exposed. The inmates that survived looked like skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. They had a long road to recovery ahead of them.
Website Number 2: For many years, soldiers have been haunted by the horrifying scenes they came across when they liberated the concentration camps. A lot of the soldiers weren't prepared to find what they found in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In his short military career of 11 months, Hymas had already lost his best friend
in combat and disobeyed orders to kill two German prisoners of war, but discovering the Buchenwald concentration camp was something Hymas wasn't prepared to find. With German soldiers guarding the camp, the American soldiers blew through the wire fence and entered this haunting and captured and killed all of the German guards. This place was a place of death that gave the soldiers haunting images that they will never forget. There are images and memories from that day which will never fade from his mind. "Buchenwald concentration camp was a place where people were literally worked to death," Hymas said. They came across a lot of different sights that would be hard to watch for anyone that had a heart. There were ovens where the bodies were burned and thousands of people were treated as if they were animals and less than people. Some men became physically by the sights they had came across. There were hundreds of dead people laying on the grounds of these camps. "I was blessed to help free many oppressed people," Hymas said. "What tiny little
bit I did to help overcome that terrible, awful wickedness, as difficult as it
was, was the best thing I have ever done in my life."
Website Number 3: When American soldiers came across the concentration camps there was about 10,000 slaved prisoners occupying the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Many of the men were sent on death marches when the Germans learned of the Americans presence. Many had been sent on death marches, shot in pits, or their corpses were stacked in the woods and burned. The Americans found the camp by accident. The German soldiers murdered many of the inmates when the war was close to ending. The US didn't mean to go out and liberate these camps. They didn't even know about them. They did not set out to liberate the camps, they happened to come across them and found frail bodies of hundreds of men that managed to survive along with men dead bodies. Many men thought the conditions of these camps were over-exaggerated until they actually saw what was taking place. An
Austrian-born Jewish U.S. soldier, Fred Bohm, helped liberate Nordhausen. He described fellow GI's as having "no particular feeling for fighting the Germans. They also thought that any stories they had read in the paper, or that I had told them out of first-hand experience, were either not true or at least exaggerated. And it did not sink in, what this was all about, until we got into Nordhausen. When the American Combat team 9 were led to Buchenwald by the Soviets. The camp contained 30,000 people in a pyramid of power. There were German communists in the barracks, which was top power and the Jews and Gypsies were at the bottom, living in Little Camp. Buchenwald barrack prisoners were healthy looking. The little camp prisoners had 1,000 to 1,200 people in one living space. The living space was meant for only about 400 people. Witnesses described prisoners as "emaciated beyond all imagination or description. Their legs and arms were sticks with huge bulging joints, and their loins were fouled by their own excrement. Their eyes were sunk so deep that they looked blind. If they moved at all, it was with a crawling slowness that made them look like huge, lethargic spiders. Many of the prisoners died daily after liberation. The Jews were still discriminated and had a hard time healing from these horrific experiences.
Camp staff set fire to the large crematorium used to burn bodies. The soviets ran some of these camps. The Germans had dismantled these camps in 1943. Most of the Jews in Poland were murdered. The Soviets came across Auschwitz.
The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward (in what would become known as "death marches"), and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand emaciated prisoners alive when they entered the camp. There was plenty of evidence at Auschwitz of mass murder. The Germans destroyed a lot of the warehouses in the camps, but soviets found personal belongings of the victims. US forces later liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp. An underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of the camp. They liberated more than 20,000 prisoners. They came across horrible conditions in the camps. There were piles of corpses that weren't buried. After these liberation the horrors were exposed. The inmates that survived looked like skeletons and were so weak they were unable to move. They had a long road to recovery ahead of them.
Website Number 2: For many years, soldiers have been haunted by the horrifying scenes they came across when they liberated the concentration camps. A lot of the soldiers weren't prepared to find what they found in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. In his short military career of 11 months, Hymas had already lost his best friend
in combat and disobeyed orders to kill two German prisoners of war, but discovering the Buchenwald concentration camp was something Hymas wasn't prepared to find. With German soldiers guarding the camp, the American soldiers blew through the wire fence and entered this haunting and captured and killed all of the German guards. This place was a place of death that gave the soldiers haunting images that they will never forget. There are images and memories from that day which will never fade from his mind. "Buchenwald concentration camp was a place where people were literally worked to death," Hymas said. They came across a lot of different sights that would be hard to watch for anyone that had a heart. There were ovens where the bodies were burned and thousands of people were treated as if they were animals and less than people. Some men became physically by the sights they had came across. There were hundreds of dead people laying on the grounds of these camps. "I was blessed to help free many oppressed people," Hymas said. "What tiny little
bit I did to help overcome that terrible, awful wickedness, as difficult as it
was, was the best thing I have ever done in my life."
Website Number 3: When American soldiers came across the concentration camps there was about 10,000 slaved prisoners occupying the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Many of the men were sent on death marches when the Germans learned of the Americans presence. Many had been sent on death marches, shot in pits, or their corpses were stacked in the woods and burned. The Americans found the camp by accident. The German soldiers murdered many of the inmates when the war was close to ending. The US didn't mean to go out and liberate these camps. They didn't even know about them. They did not set out to liberate the camps, they happened to come across them and found frail bodies of hundreds of men that managed to survive along with men dead bodies. Many men thought the conditions of these camps were over-exaggerated until they actually saw what was taking place. An
Austrian-born Jewish U.S. soldier, Fred Bohm, helped liberate Nordhausen. He described fellow GI's as having "no particular feeling for fighting the Germans. They also thought that any stories they had read in the paper, or that I had told them out of first-hand experience, were either not true or at least exaggerated. And it did not sink in, what this was all about, until we got into Nordhausen. When the American Combat team 9 were led to Buchenwald by the Soviets. The camp contained 30,000 people in a pyramid of power. There were German communists in the barracks, which was top power and the Jews and Gypsies were at the bottom, living in Little Camp. Buchenwald barrack prisoners were healthy looking. The little camp prisoners had 1,000 to 1,200 people in one living space. The living space was meant for only about 400 people. Witnesses described prisoners as "emaciated beyond all imagination or description. Their legs and arms were sticks with huge bulging joints, and their loins were fouled by their own excrement. Their eyes were sunk so deep that they looked blind. If they moved at all, it was with a crawling slowness that made them look like huge, lethargic spiders. Many of the prisoners died daily after liberation. The Jews were still discriminated and had a hard time healing from these horrific experiences.