Concentration Camp Liberators Research Paper

Concentration Camp Liberators During the Second World War, as the Allies invaded Germany, the job of special units of soldiers called liberators was to liberate Nazi concentration camps scattered throughout Germany and other parts of Europe. These concentration camps were the housing of what the Germans called their prisoners of war. However, in reality, these camps were the areas or starvation, forced labor, and precise execution of tens of thousands of Jews and other minorities under Hitler’s plan for genocide. Through the roles, experiences, and impacts of these soldiers, the war would change, and so would the lives of the surviving prisoners inside the camp walls. Liberators had many roles when it came to liberating camps. To start, soldiers would first have to gain control of the camp. Many times, the Nazi units stationed there and the main overseers of the camp would abandon them before fleeing; mass killing as many prisoners as possible, destroying as much evidence to their brutality as they could, and leaving the remaining prisoners to die. It was then fairly easy for Allied troops to gain control, but sometimes fighting would occur if any German soldiers were still there. Another role of the liberators was to rescue prisoners and nurse them back …show more content…
Roles included freeing prisoners of war, treating the sick and dying, along with burying the dead. Soldiers in liberator units experienced ghastly, terrible acts committed on innocent people; there was death, disease, and sadness all around. However, the impacts of these liberations were vital to the Allies war effort, and the confirmation to people all around the world to Hitler’s brutality. The soldiers that liberated the concentration camps endured what they did all for the well-being of the entire