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The War
The Holocaust: Liberating the Camps
As Allied forces pushed into Germany and Austria in 1945, American soldiers came face to face with the Nazi camps. Veterans including Burnett Miller and Dwain Luce describe the dying and the dead at Mauthausen and Ludwigslust, and Waterbury medic Ray Leopold recounts the human experimentation he found at Hadamar. The horror, they say, never left them.
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President Johnson escalates the war while promising the public that victory is in sight.
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Germany and the Japanese surrender too and millions try to learn to live without war.
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By mid March, 1945, they are across the Rhine, while Russians are 50 miles from Berlin.
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On D-Day, 1.5 million Allied troops take part in the greatest invasion in history.
