Russian and Poles honor victims of German terror.
Russian and Poles honor victims of German terror. The liberation of Lublin in Poland Army on July 24, 1944 revealed a huge concentration camp where the Germab carried out atrocities and executions on an unprecedented scale Russian journalists who visited the camp said that it occupied an area of almost 20 square miles (52 square kilimeters) and numbered its victims in the hundreds of thousands. Cremation ovens where the German burned the bodies of those whom they tortured to death were seized intact. Victims of the exterminaton camp included Poles, Jews of all nationalities, Frenchmen, Greeks, Dutch, Italians, Belgians, Yugoslavians, Hungarians and Spaniards of anti-Nazi sympathies. Representatives of the Russian and Polish Armies and the Polish Committee of national Liberation ttend the public services at Lublin in August 6, 1944 for thousands of victims who died in the German extermination camp at Lublin. The PCNL unveiled a tablet in the wall of Lublin Castle which carried this incription from the Polish people: "To the miilions of victims killed by the German criminals at Maidanek (the suburb where the extermination camp was located) and in the castle".
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