Liberation of Bergen Belsen by the British Army 15 April 1945 Info from twitter & BBC

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Link to tweet

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..."pieces of journalism ever transmitted. At first the BBC refused to let him go on air with it. He threatened to walk out unless they let him describe what happened.

The next 2 audio sections are from "Richard Dimbleby describes Belsen
Witness History, it is easy to down load the clips.
Have kleenex near by.

FIRST BBC SECTION In April 1945, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4x74


SECOND SECTION FROM THE BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/videos/c87z7p0j3g5o

Total audio time under 30 minutes

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1. Article on Bergen Belsen

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/bergen-belsen

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2. Back then, we were liberating concentration camps...

…now, we’re creating them.

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3. Another twitter post from a WW2 historian

Link to tweet

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4. Bergen-Belsen liberation: Tank driver John Darby recalls opening gates *Some images are not for work

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-32314874


snip-"Seventy years ago British troops entered the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. One of those to witness the horrors first hand was John Darby, who used his Sherman tank to open the gates. This is his story.

On 15 April 1945, shuffling along the road are a dozen or so German officers who, in fractured bursts of English, speak of "prison camp", "disease", "typhus"


snip-""I was the first there to discover it.

"We knew it was a camp, but it wasn't an extermination camp - but people died and were piled up in beds and round and about like rotten logs of wood, which we could see at a distance."



more at article