Major General Pyotr Ivanovich Zubov, commanding the 322nd Rifle Division of the Soviet Red Army, liberates the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Birkenau, Poland.
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“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 27 January 2011, News: 3.
322nd Rifle Division (Soviet Union) – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/322nd_Rifle_Division_(Soviet_Union)