Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz on the 27th of January 1945. Only a few thousand inmates awaited them. The vast majority of the prisoners had been marched away by the Nazis just days before, ...

In late May 2004, thanks in part to the vigilance of several outside readers who phoned in, we discovered that some person or persons had tampered with this feature's tally. Specifically, on May 16-17 ...