• Mid January 1945: Death marches from Auschwitz.
• 27 January 1945: Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
• April 1945: British troops liberate 40,000 prisoners in Bergen-Belsen.
• April 1945: The Soviet forces reach Berlin.
• 30 April 1945: Hitler commits suicide.
• 5 May 1945: Mauthausen is liberated.
• 8 May 1945: The end of the Second World War.