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As the British Army advanced into the heart of Nazi Germany in the spring of 1945, its soldiers were confronted with the full horrors of the Holocaust at the notorious Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
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Jun 8, 2004 · The Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp. At the beginning of April 1945 I was a Staff Officer (Anti-Aircraft Artillery), rank of Major, attached to the HQ of 8th Corps of the British 2nd...
It was in this capacity that, on April 15, 1945, Lieutenant John Randall and his driver were motoring through forests of pine and silver birch in northern Germany when a terrible smell hit them, a cloying stench of rot and excrement that seemed to hang in the air like a plague miasma.
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British forces liberated Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945. Thousands of bodies lay unburied around the camp and some 60,000 starving and mortally ill people were packed together without food, water or basic sanitation. Many were suffering from typhus, dysentery and starvation. Bergen-Belsen was first established in 1940 as a prisoner of war camp.
Apr 23, 2021 · The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British forces on 15 April 1945. In this blog post, we will look at the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, war reporting and photography and the idea of Belsen in the British imagination.
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Liberating Belsen: ‘I know what Nazism did: I was there’ 14 April 2015 This blog has been written by John Wood, the son of a soldier who was among the troops who entered Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
