Så pinsamt för den Djupa Staten...... SPUTNIKNEWS.COM Der Spiegel Apologises After Claiming American, Not Soviet Troops Liberated Auschwitz January 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation by the Soviet Red Army of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, where about 1.5 million people, predominantly Jews, were killed by Nazi forces between 1940 and 1945.