‘Hero of Auschwitz’ David Dushman, last surviving liberator of death camp, dies aged 98

Red Army soldier David Dushman used his T-34 Soviet tank to mow down the electric fence of the Nazi death camp

David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who took part in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1945, has died at the age of 98.

He died in a Munich clinic on Friday night, the city's Jewish IKG cultural community said on Sunday, describing him as a liberating hero of Auschwitz".