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#OnThisDay in 1945 Buchenwald Concentration Camp was liberated by American troops.

Between 1937 and 1945 approximately 250,000 people were imprisoned at Buchenwald, over 56,000 of whom were killed. #OTD

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#OnThisDay in 1994, a plane carrying the then Rwandan President and the then Hutu president of Burundi, was shot down.

It remains unclear who shot down the plane, but blame was placed on the Tutsis. Hate speech spread, which encouraged Hutus to wipe out the Tutsis. #OTD

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#OnThisDay in 1935, the Nazis issued an order to local authorities to close down the Watchtower Society – criminalising the Jehovah’s Witnesses who lived in Germany at that time.

Approximately 1,700 Jehovah’s Witnesses were murdered during the Nazi regime. #OTD

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#OnThisDay in 1933, less than 3 months after Hitler was appointed German Chancellor, the first concentration camp of the Nazi regime was established in the town of Dachau, in Southern Germany.

Slave labour, medical experimentation and mass killings all took place at Dachau. #OTD

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