history · 05 May 1945 · 79 years ago
US 11th Armored Division entered Mauthausen Concentration Camp in occupied Austria region of Germany. The Council of Jewish Elders at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czechoslovakia, operating under Commandant Rahm, met with the commandant for the last time. The council was dissolved after that meeting. Later that day, Rahm fled the camp ahead of the advancing Soviet troops.
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