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Camp Vught, located in the Netherlands, was opened in 1943 and held 31,000 prisoners. 749 prisoners died in the camp, and the others were transferred to Sobibor and Auschwitz.

On 26 October 1944, Scottish troops of the 7th Black Watch liberated the camp during Operation Pheasant. They fought a rear guard of SS personnel left to defend the nearly evacuated facility. There were around 500-600 prisoners left alive, who were due to be executed that afternoon, and whose lives were saved by the arrival of the liberating forces.

About 500 inmates were also discovered dead in piles near the gates, having been executed the very morning of the day the camp was liberated. www.TheWWIIRifle.com