From what I understand, at the liberation of Auschwitz, the American troops were so disgusted that the locals didn't do anything about the attrocities, they made the locals clean up the mess.
Correct. It's also depicted in the great, superb miniseries band of brothers.
I forget what camp they were at, but every local above a certain age was instructed to dress up in their best clothes and assemble. Then they were made to clean up the bodies.
Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army. The Soviet general was so horrified at site that he has the Nazis in charge executed on the spot.
You are correct about what the Americans did, but the camp was somewhere in western Germany.
No it was the concentraion camps in Germany where this happened.
IIRC it was buchenwald. in the show band of brothers
"AWWWW, if it is Poland, it must be Polish."
Following thic logic - if the Twin Towers distruction and murdering of a few thousand of people happened in America so that mass-murder "must be American".
You've got it confused with Buchenwald, which was just outside of Munich.
I don't know where you guys have learned history but from what you wrote I think you didn't learn at all. Auschwitz was not in Poland but in Occupied territories that beloned to Poland before it was invaded by Nazi Germany. It was liberated by the Soviets. The camp you are referring to was in Landsberg- Germany. Start learning history from the books not from TV!!!
Nazi Germans placed their concentration and extermination camps in occipied Poland because Poland was home to the biggest Jewish population in Europe (about 3.3 million in 1939).
Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army in January of 1945.
American troops never made it as far as Poland (hence the Warsaw Pact - Iron curtain,,,, you know, the Cold War. Ring a Bell?)
Auschwitz was a GERMAN run, concentration camp in GERMAN occupied Poland
The Poles have a right to be sore about the CTV representation.