Timeline Sunday 23 July 1944

Events on Sunday 23 July 1944 1

• 1944 Liberation of Majdanek First major Nazi camp reached by Allied troops Soviet forces reached the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp near Lublin. The Germans had not had time to destroy it, and gas chambers and crematoria were found largely intact. Reports and photographs of the camp gave the world early evidence of the Holocaust.