A single person and or in groups hid or fought the Germans for months. The killings by Nazis increased within that period of time. Because of how many people the Nazis started killing they advanced to killing people by poisonous gases.On July 20th 1944 German military officers attempted to assassinate Hitler. Soon after U.S. troops liberated a concentration camp. "It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity" - Simone Veil (a Holocaust victim) the Soviet Union invaded the biggest concentration camp Auschwitz and liberated thousands of people even though most of them are ill and dying. U.S. Troops liberated the rest of the camps freeing over 7,000 survivors. The German troops surrendered that year to the allied forces of the west. Within 16 weeks Japan surrendered and World War Two ended. Adolf Hitler then committed suicide April 30th 1945. "Their is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist"-Giuliana Tedeschi (a Holocaust