The Day the RAF Killed 7,000 Nazi Concentration Camp Inmates British bombed German ships with prisoners days before World War II ended In early 1945, Nazi concentration camps still held some 700,00 prisoners. The SS emptied the camps as Allied forces pushed into Nazi territory, moving the prisoners into Germany. So many thousands died on these forced transfers that are known to history as “death marches.” Lost in that history is how the Royal Air Force (“RAF”) killed several thousand inmates on May 3, 1945, when it bombed ships sitting in Lübeck Bay on the Baltic Sea. The SS evacuated...
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