By the time the Allies reached the extermination and concentration camps there weren't that many inmates, Jewish or non-jewish, left to free. Obviously, the Allies freed those that were still alive. They need medical care first, though, and the killer diseases didn't simply disappear. In the case of the typhus epidemic at Bergen-Belsen, for example, a further 13,000 inmates died after liberation.
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