Retropolis To liberate Auschwitz, David Dushman drove a Soviet tank through its barbed wire. Horrors awaited inside.

Dushman didn’t enter the death camp through the notorious gate emblazoned with the words “Arbeit macht frei” (Work sets you free). His tank plowed right through the electrified, barbed-wire fence — a fence many prisoners had intentionally jumped into to end their torture.