http://jan27.org/the-liberation/
Some questions arise
Building burning at Birkenau is caught on film by a Soviet “liberation” photographer. The controversy over the time and location of the picture may have been solved.
The photograph at right, a still from a Soviet propaganda film about the Auschwitz “liberation,” had been thought to be of the clothing warehouses burning. But new research suggests it is more likely regular barracks, probably in Compound B1. If this is true, it makes little difference when the picture was taken, as it was certainly after the Russians arrived.
Is there any credible testimony from those prisoners remaining in the Birkenau camp that they heard or saw explosions of these crematorium buildings on the 20th or the 26th? If so, it has been kept awfully quiet.
If the Germans abandoned the camp on the 18th of January and the Russians didn’t arrive until the 27th, 9 days later, why didn’t more of the inmates just walk away and return to their homes, as many are said to have done later? Considering 8,000 of them sat tight right where they were for 9 entire days, there must, at least, have been decent care provided for them. I find no attempt to properly answer these questions.
I say good for her for making note of it. I did not know she already had. I just found this out after contacting her. She clarified for me. Otherwise, she wrote a nice article.
