April 4

Ohrdruf, Central Germany • April 4, 1945 Over the first 3 weeks of April 1945, during the brutal ter­mi­nal phase of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, Allied armies dis­covered more than 100 con­cen­tra­tion and exter­mi­na­tion camps, including Buchen­wald, Nord­hausen, Flossen­buerg, and Bergen-Belsen. Dis­coveries like these came mostly by acci­dent because sites of this nature were not…

Ohrdruf, Central Germany · April 4, 1945 Over the first three weeks of April 1945, during the brutal ter­mi­nal phase of the Third Reich, Allied armies dis­covered more than one hun­dred con­cen­tra­tion camps, including Buchen­wald, Nord­hausen, Flossen­buerg, and Bergen-Belsen. On this date in 1945 soldiers of Gen. George S. Patton’s Fourth Armored Division un­ex­pectedly came upon…