Red Army soldiers entered the camp in the early afternoon of January 27 and found 600 corpses of prisoners whom the Germans had murdered several hours before they fled. However, they also found 7,650 living prisoners, ill and exhausted, who survived because the Germans fled too hastily to force them to join the death marches. The Germans also had no time to empty or destroy the storage facilities in which they kept the victims' possessions. Thus, the Soviets found 350,000 men's suits, 837,000 women's garments, tens of thousands of pairs of shoes, and almost eight tons of human hair, packed in sacks and ready for shipment. According to the Polish historian Francizek Piper, at least 1.1 million people had been murdered in Auschwitz, of whom 90 percent were Jews.
