| A | B |
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| When did the Germans try and conceal the death camps? | The winter of 1944-1945, when they knew the war was lost |
| Why did the Germans try to conceal the death camps? | they wanted to conceal the evidence |
| During the death marches, the inmates of the camps were moved where? | closer to Germany |
| What were conditions like on the death marches? | Prisoners were forced to march in the dead of winter, anyone who lagged behind was shot, many were shot for no reason, Prisoners were given little or no food or water, they were given very little time to rest or take care of bodily needs. |
| Which country was the first to enter a concentration camp? | The Soviets entered Majdanek |
| How did the world react to the first Soviet liberation? | the press coverage was intense, but it was dismissed as Communist propaganda |
| Which country liberated Auschwitz? | The Soviet Union |
| Which country liberated Bergen-Belsen. | The British |
| In which camp were conditions most horrific. They had a huge typhus outbreak. | Bergen-Belsen |
| Since conditions were so horrific in Bergen-Belsen, what had to be done to the camp? | It had to be burned |
| Who was brought in to tour the Bergen-Belsen camp? | German citizens |
| What camps did the Americans liberate? | Buchenwald, Dachau, Mauthausen and Gusen |
