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| 1945 January 27 |
| | | The Red Army liberates the surviving prisoners at Auschwitz, who include the Italian novelist Primo Levi | |
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| 1945 |
| | | Alexander Solzhenitsyn is sentenced to eight years in a Soviet labour camp for critizing Stalin in a private correspondence | |
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| 1945 April 5 |
| | | Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed in a Nazi concentration camp just a month before the end of the war in Europe | |
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| 1945 April 11 |
| | | American troops discover the German concentration camp at Buchenwald | |
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| 1945 April 15 |
| | | The British reach Belsen and reveal appalling Nazi atrocities, worse even than at Buchenwald | |
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| 1945 April 29 |
| | | Adolf Hitler marries Eva Braun in his bunker, and holds a champagne reception with Goebbels as the principal guest | |
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| 1945 April 30 |
| | | Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun retire to their marital quarters in the Berlin bunker and commit suicide | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - by the end of the war the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis is around 6 million | |
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| 1945 |
| | | [1939-1945] - in addition to 6 million Jews, the Nazi death camps have killed some 400,000 Gypsies and 100,000 'useless defectives' | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Daniel Malan moves swiftly to reinforce apartheid, South Africa's already existing system of racial segregation | |
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