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Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz death camp.
Auschwitz was a group of camps, 3 main ones, and 40 smaller ones. When the Soviet troops freed the prisoners they found, 648 dead and 7,000 starving camp survivors. -
Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss post-war Europe.
This event was a meeting between the heads of the government of the U.S., the U.K., and the Soviet Union. The meeting was intended to re-establish the nations.