Lost River Camps

How did the Allis liberate the people from the camps in world war 2?

how did the americans and who ever else were on our side in ww2, free the people from the concentration camps? Would they not be week? where did they go? How did they build up there lives again? how did the americans ( and the Allies) were on our side in ww2, free the people from the concentration camps? Would they not be week? where did they go? How did they build up there lives again? (Sorry about the bad wording before it was very insulting and I am very sorry)

Public Comments

1. What do you mean by "and who ever else were on our side "? How insulting is that to those who fought for your freedom?
2. the Western Allies (American , British and ect) and the Soviets were able to liberate the people from the concecration and death camps by occuping them during the final campaign against Nazi Germany (January -May 1945). Indeed the surviving inmates from this camps were very week. The Jewish among them gradually went to (the soon to be) Israeli state whereas other nationalities return to their own countries and they built up their life more or less in the same manner as their fellow war- striken compatriots
3. Chmelski, this is a very tough question you ask. Tough because at least when the U.S. soldiers began to discover these encampments, death camps, concentration camps, etc., the poor people were to weak to enjoy the new liberty after years of torture and maltreatment. These people were so weak that U.S. Army Medical Doctors informed Gen. D.D. Eisenhower that they (the jews, gypsies, gays, and others) would have to remain in the concentration camps and be fed to the point that they would gain muscle mass and body weight again. The malnutrition was so bad that at the time "Ike" wasn't keen to this idea but soon realized this was the best temporary solution. Obviously, those who could leave the camps did so at their earliest ability; but, for most this was not an option. The book I have linked you to below speaks of those who escaped Germany prior to 1941. I did this in the hopes that you would first read some of the sad success stories attached to the attrocities. Later, I would recommend you visit the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC and read more of the actual unfortunate events that occured in the camps. I did not want to depress you on this matter or turn you away from it by exposing this all to you at this point. Out of respect for both you and your question. Best to you!
4. Many stayed in the camps fed by the Red Cross, Military Medics and so on until they were strong enough to make their way back home. There was a huge upheaval in Europe as people made their way home, and it is unknown how many more perished. Some managed to cope and build a new life, others became drunks or went insane or remained homeless.
5. There is really no way to answer this question - except for reading a survivor's testimony and story after the war. Many of the major concentation camps and extermination camps were located in Eastern Europe, so it was the Russians that located and liberated many of the camps, while the U.S-British allied forces liberated camps in France and Germany such as Dachau, Buchenwald. The sight that met the allied soldiers and commanders sickened them. The dead lay in mass pits or just left where they were, while the half-living and dying laid where they were. The smell of rotting flesh and disease would have been unimaginable to the allied soldiers. But the allies just simply could not move the dead and the dying. The camps were infested with lice, and the survivors would have to be deloused to rid them of lice. Giving them food would have been difficult as their weakened bodies would not sustain large amounts - slow feeding. The allies also faced the problem of rounding up the Nazi officers - those who had not fled, had disguised themselves as inmates and dressed themselves in the inmate clothing. As the survivors helped the allied soldiers find those Nazis, revenge killings took place with nazi guards being shot and beaten to death by enraged inmates. The liberation of the camps was a logistical nightmare for the allies - the smell of death and disease in the camps such as diarrohea, malnutrition, diseases continued to kill inmates days and weeks after the intitial liberation of the camps. As the allies took the names and details of the survivors and buried the dead, it would have been weeks or months before the survivors could even begin to look for family members, who if they had not been killed by the Nazis, would have been relocated to another camp, or could be among the million refugees fleeing devastation across Europe. There is a brillant book ' The Journey Back from Hell' by Anton Gill about survivors testimony from Auschwitz and other camps. Its a must read book if you really want to understand the hell they went through - and the hell they came back from.
6. they took over that area the camp was in in most cases they kept the them in the camp to give them treatment most went looking for their families