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107K views · 2.7K reactions | WATCH: 72 years ago this week US troops liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The Nazis had tortured and starved their Jewish prisoners. Here's STUNNING video of the survivors -- 1 of the 1st news reels in full color. ---> for the best bits of history like HistoryBites. | HistoryBites | Facebook

By April 1945, Buchenwald was collapsing from within. Nazi control was breaking down, and among the starving, beaten prisoners, an underground resistance was taking shape. The camp had held more than 250,000 people since 1937. Political prisoners, Jews, communists, and others that the regime wanted erased were sent there. Yet, even in a place built to destroy human spirit, defiance grew quietly. Smuggled notes. Hidden tools. Plans whispered in the dark. Then, on April 8, a prisoner managed to do

Il y a 80 ans, le 11 avril 1945, les détenus du camp de concentration de Buchenwald se libéraient eux-mêmes. Dans une archive, le résistant Roger Arnould se rappelle le déroulé de cette journée historique. | France Culture