Talk:Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp
https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31/ According to UNESCO: Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) So please do not manipulate the name GermanCamps (talk) 15:20, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Auschwitz is in Poland, so putting German can lead to confusion for those who might think it meant to indicate the location of the camp rather than the nationality of those who built it. Your rendering of the name makes it unnecessarily awkward and long. For example, the full name of Santa Fe, New Mexico is "La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís", but mostly we just write "Santa Fe". Eric talk 15:30, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Auschwitz is not in Poland. In Poland is Oświęcim. Auschwitz was in part of Germany during the WW2 and the Auschwitz camp is German camp according to the Unesco. It is not awkard for historians, only for people who want to rewrite history. You may always add "in occupied Poland" to not "confuse" GermanCamps (talk) 22:11, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, you have your work cut out for you fixing Wikipedia and Google Maps, both of which place the camp in Poland:
 * Auschwitz concentration camp
 * File:Concentration_camps_in_occupied_Europe_(2007_borders).png
 * Auschwitz on Google Maps
 * Eric talk 22:53, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Soviet soldiers "were shocked"
the lede says "The Soviet soldiers ... were shocked at the scale of Nazi crimes" but the article only mentions one person. In fact "(i)n a few articles in Soviet newspapers such as Pravda, following Soviet propaganda, the writers failed to mention Jews in their articles on the liberation." An ambiguous statement - was it only a few among many, or were there only a few - but not proof of universal shock. --2607:FEA8:FF01:4A86:E58C:8A58:30C3:A946 (talk) 11:50, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
 * the soviet soldiers were so deeply shocked that they immediately reused the camp -- and not just against the Nazis, but mostly against Silesians, random Poles, Jews, gays, partisans, anti-communists -- including some folks who were inmates before. The ownership was then transferred from the Soviet army to Polish MBP by mid-March, with last sub-camp closing in 1956.  But for some reason there's not a single word about the new owners of the liberated camp anywhere in the article. -KiloByte (talk) 20:53, 27 January 2022 (UTC)


 * The Soviets did this in numerous other places such as Sachsenhausen (immediately repurposed the liberated camp[s] to imprison a different set of demographics.Historian932 (talk) 14:15, 27 January 2024 (UTC)