Bergen-Belson, Through The Eyes Of It's Liberator

[FirefightnRick]

Seventy years ago today(yesterday), the British Army entered the infamous camp

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416948/bergen-belsen-through-eyes-its-liberator-bernice-lerner

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The next day, Hughes and Lieutenant Colonel R. I. G. Taylor, commanding officer of the 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment, traveled in a convoy of army vehicles down the dirt road bisecting the camp.

They passed water tanks, a gallows, and cookhouses. They observed hundreds, then thousands, of skeletal figures staggering toward them. A loudspeaker atop one of the vehicles blared an announcement: The camp is now under the control of the British Army; food and medical aid are being rushed up; help us and yourselves by obeying our instructions.

Surveying the camp on foot, Hughes and Taylor met aimless, ragged men and women. Around a concrete pit containing a few inches of dirty water, some tried to fill tins tied to the ends of long sticks. Hughes wept......

It's only been 70 years since this happened. Not very long ago.

Rick

[Stix]

Thank you for posting this, Rick.

"Never forget"