And no one any longer alleges that the camps on our side of the Iron Curtain were "death camps." Just camps that suffered mass casualties in the last months of the war due to war-related conditions causing huge numbers of deaths from typhus. Such labels only applied to camps that Western investigators had no access to during the Cold War, so it was impossible to challenge the claims about them made by the Soviets.
Straight up 100% horseschit.
Immediately after the defeat of the Germans, both the US and the Brits made documentary movies about the camps they had gained access to. They clearly state in those documentaries the cause of deaths (typhus), and emphasized that a large percentage of the survivors were suffering from it, too, requiring immediate and intensive treatment to avoid them dying as well.
The liberating forces brought in massive medical resources and personnel to deal with it, along with an effort to control the typhus-spreading lice. Ultimately, they chose to burn down all the structures to kill the lice.
Typhus was a massive problem, resulting in mass casualties, all documented on film with narration to that effect by the two nations under the auspices of their respective militaries.
The documentary films didn't get widespread distribution because the decision had been made, shortly after their production, to play up the death camp/genocide narrative, and the typhus information tended to contradict that.
