At the end of January 1945, the advancing Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. The full extent of the Holocaust is now becoming clear to the Allies. At the Yalta Conference, they agree on further military and political action. While the Americans are conquering city after city in the west, Russian troops are advancing in the east. After the Battle of Berlin in April 1945, the end of the Nazi regime was sealed. Hitler commits suicide in the bunker of the New Reich Chancellery.
