Belsen and its liberation : rare photographs from wartime archives / Ian Baxter.

By:

Baxter, Ian [Author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Images of warPublication details: Barnsley : Pen & Sword, c2014.Description: 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9781781593318

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

D 805.5 .B47 .B39 2014 c.1

Contents:

Chapter One. POW camp.--Chapter Two. Under SS Control.--Chapter Three. Liberation.

Summary: The final episode of Belsen was witnessed by British soldiers of the Second Army, who were completely unprepared for what they encountered when they arrived at the gates of the camp. Inside the camp they found some 10,000 unburied dead in addition to the mass graves already containing 40,000 more corpses. This latest Images of War book captures the story of those that ran Belsen, those who perished and the troops that liberated the living from their hell. Utterly horrific as it was, the Holocaust is a chapter in the history of mankind that must never be forgotten.

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Chapter One. POW camp.--Chapter Two. Under SS Control.--Chapter Three. Liberation.

The final episode of Belsen was witnessed by British soldiers of the Second Army, who were completely unprepared for what they encountered when they arrived at the gates of the camp. Inside the camp they found some 10,000 unburied dead in addition to the mass graves already containing 40,000 more corpses. This latest Images of War book captures the story of those that ran Belsen, those who perished and the troops that liberated the living from their hell. Utterly horrific as it was, the Holocaust is a chapter in the history of mankind that must never be forgotten.

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