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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f232565 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2f232565\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The days of the Liberation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1077a10 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1077a10\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-85614fb\" data-id=\"85614fb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0c4b39e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0c4b39e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As mentioned on the first page about Belsen Camp\u2019s Liberation, there are many stories, recollections, etc covering this event.\u00a0 What is below is a collection from many websites, the main two are &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bergenbelsen.co.uk\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.bergenbelsen.co.uk\/index.html<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scrapbookpages.com\/BergenBelsen\/ConcentrationCamp.html\">http:\/\/www.scrapbookpages.com\/BergenBelsen\/ConcentrationCamp.html<\/a><\/p><p>A further source is the documented account from the personal War Diaries by Maj Ben Barnett, Battery Commander of 249 Battery, 63<sup>rd<\/sup> (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment RA.\u00a0 This covers the small, but hugely significant part played by the QOOH in the relief of this terrible place.<\/p><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">WARNING: This page contains graphic imagery that may be deemed offensive by some viewers.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8366005 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8366005\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e45b12b\" data-id=\"e45b12b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e04983 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8e04983\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was voluntarily turned over to the Allied 21st Army Group, a combined British-Canadian force, on April 15, 1945 by Reichsf\u00fchrer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the man who was in charge of all the German concentration and death camps.\u00a0 Bergen-Belsen was in the middle of the war zone where British and German troops were fighting in the last days of World War II and there was a danger that the typhus epidemic in the camp would spread to the troops on both sides, let alone to the surrounding civilian population.<\/p><p>Before negotiations with the British began, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), had sent an order on April 7, 1945, directly to the Commandant of Bergen-Belsen, Josef Kramer, that all the prisoners in the camp should be killed, rather than let them fall into the hands of the enemy, according to Gerald Fleming, author of &#8220;<em>Hitler and the Final Solution<\/em>&#8220;, who wrote that this order had come from Hitler himself. \u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e5b2c10\" data-id=\"e5b2c10\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a86306e elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a86306e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"556\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-1942.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1737\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-1942.jpg 556w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-1942-350x203.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f7129f1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f7129f1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-2007.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1738\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-2007.jpg 538w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Belsen-main-entrance-2007-350x206.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-caa9f9f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"caa9f9f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c2ada96\" data-id=\"c2ada96\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fc8762 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1fc8762\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>When this news reached representatives of the World Jewish Congress in Stockholm, they contacted Felix Kersten, a Swedish chiropractor who had treated Himmler. \u00a0According to Fleming, Kersten succeeded in persuading Himmler to reverse the order.\u00a0 When Hitler heard this, he flew into a rage, according to Fleming.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a2f9657 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a2f9657\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0a1bbcd\" data-id=\"0a1bbcd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-51d1a58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"51d1a58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1098\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone-768x1318.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1740\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone-768x1318.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone-204x350.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone-597x1024.jpg 597w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone-895x1536.jpg 895w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Map-of-Neutral-Zone.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-98d1ace\" data-id=\"98d1ace\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4b9beb0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4b9beb0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Negotiations for the transfer of the Bergen-Belsen camp to the British took several days.\u00a0 Then on the night of April 12, 1945, a cease-fire agreement was signed between the local German Military Commander and the British Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Taylor-Balfour, according to Eberhard Kolb in his book, &#8220;Bergen-Belsen from 1943 to 1945&#8221;.<\/p><p>An area of 48 square kilometres around Bergen-Belsen was declared a neutral zone.\u00a0 The neutral zone was 8 kilometres long and 6 kilometres wide.\u00a0 Until British troops could take over, the agreement specified that the camp would be guarded by a unit of Hungarian soldiers and soldiers from the German Wehrmacht (the regular army as opposed to the SS).\u00a0 They were assured that they would be allowed free return passage to the German lines within six days after the British arrived.\u00a0 The SS soldiers who made up the staff of the camp were to remain at their posts and carry on their duties until the British arrived to take over.\u00a0 There was no specific stipulation in the agreement about what their fate would be, according to Eberhard Kolb.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-47f46c6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"47f46c6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-65727a5\" data-id=\"65727a5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f78ffbd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f78ffbd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the afternoon of Sunday, April 15th, British soldiers arrived at the German Army training garrison (<em>Bergen-Belsen Barracks which became the Bergen-Belsen DP (Displaced Persons) camp,<\/em> <em>now known as Bergen-Hohne<\/em>), next door to the concentration camp, and the transfer of the neutral territory of the Bergen-Belsen camp was made.\u00a0 A short time later, a group of British officers entered the concentration camp, which was right next to the garrison, although the distance by road was about 1.5 kilometres.<\/p><p>The first British units to enter the camp were from the 63rd (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery, and with a van with a loudspeaker, the 14 Amplifier Unit, Intelligence Corps.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7fafa2b\" data-id=\"7fafa2b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d1412f9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"d1412f9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries-1024x1014.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1748\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries-1024x1014.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries-350x347.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries-768x760.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Taylor-Barnett-and-Oberst-Harries.jpg 1121w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d69dcc2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d69dcc2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b6002b2\" data-id=\"b6002b2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9600080 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"9600080\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Brig-Glyn-Hughes.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-1745\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Brig-Glyn-Hughes.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Brig-Glyn-Hughes-350x310.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-25dce68\" data-id=\"25dce68\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1804195 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1804195\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Brigadier Llewelyn Glyn Hughes, a medical officer, was in command of the relief operation.\u00a0 The British had known that there were terrible epidemics in the camp, and that this was the main reason the camp had been surrendered, but they were unprepared for the gruesome sight of the dead bodies, and it came as an enormous shock to them.<\/p><p>In a book entitled &#8220;<em>The Belsen Trial<\/em>&#8221; by Raymond Phillips, published in 1949, Brigadier Glyn Hughes is quoted in this description of the terrible scene that the British found at Bergen-Belsen:<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-624475b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"624475b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-da936bc\" data-id=\"da936bc\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b113c21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b113c21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>&#8220;<em>The conditions in the camp were really indescribable; no description nor photograph could really bring home the horrors that were there outside the huts, and the frightful scenes inside were much worse.\u00a0 There were various sizes of piles of corpses lying all over the camp, some in between the huts.\u00a0 The compounds themselves had bodies lying about in them.\u00a0 The gutters were full and within the huts there were uncountable numbers of bodies, some even in the same bunks as the living.\u00a0 Near the crematorium were signs of filled-in mass graves, and outside to the left of the bottom compound was an open pit half-full of corpses.\u00a0 It had just begun to be filled.\u00a0 Some of the huts had bunks but not many, and they were filled absolutely to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease.\u00a0 There was not room for them to lie down at full length in each hut.\u00a0 In the most crowded there were anything from 600 to 1000 people in accommodation which should only have taken 100 !<\/em><\/p><p><em>There were no bunks in a hut in the women&#8217;s compound which contained the typhus patients.\u00a0 They were lying on the floor and were so weak they could hardly move.\u00a0 There was practically no bedding.\u00a0 In some cases, there was a thin mattress, but some had none.\u00a0 Some had draped themselves in blankets, and some had German hospital type of clothing.\u00a0 That was the general picture.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ef9dbd\" data-id=\"0ef9dbd\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3452074 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"3452074\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bodies-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bodies 1\" 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role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Inside-a-hut-350x243.jpg\" alt=\"Inside a hut\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Prisoner-de-lousing-311x350.jpg\" alt=\"Prisoner de-lousing\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"3 of 3\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Sgt-Jack-Rawlings-312x350.jpg\" alt=\"Sgt Jack Rawlings\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-449d077 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"449d077\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-94df95f\" data-id=\"94df95f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-742617c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"742617c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Stable Blocks at the former Bergen-Belsen (<em>now Bergen-Hohne<\/em>) Barracks were identified and converted into improvised decontamination facilities (gaining the nick-name, \u2018Human Laundry\u2019).\u00a0 Here former prisoners would arrive from Belsen Camp, be shaven, washed and deloused prior to being moved into the newly established hospitals within Bergen-Belsen Barracks.\u00a0 The German nurses brought in to work in the Human Laundry were initially hostile.\u00a0 They laughed, joked, were definitely truculent, and made no effort to get things ready for the job in hand.\u00a0 Damned if they were going to work for the British.\u00a0 But when the first patients started to arrive, those nurses stood with their mouths open and gazed horror-struck as those bodies were brought in.\u00a0 \u00a0First one, then another started to sob until almost the whole sixty were weeping.\u00a0 There was no more truculence after that.\u00a0 The humanity and professionalism of these Germans soon wore down British hostility.\u00a0 Those girls worked like slaves, they grew thin and they grew pale but they worked and they toiled from eight in the morning till six at night.\u00a0 They earned respect and in the end were given tea in the mid-morning and cigarettes.\u00a0 The German nurses were of course at high risk of contracting Typhus themselves. \u00a0\u00a0According to Allied accounts, they were offered immunisation but the German officer in charge of them refused it on the basis that they had received it recently. \u00a0\u00a0A month later, when 32 out of the 48 nurses were in bed with typhus, he admitted that they had not had a typhus vaccine and gave several lame excuses for his refusal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-03c301a\" data-id=\"03c301a\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f716fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4f716fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Human-Laundry-external.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1756\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Human-Laundry-external.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Human-Laundry-external-350x260.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-81f9811 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"81f9811\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;navigation&quot;:&quot;both&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;slide&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500}\" data-widget_type=\"image-carousel.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel-wrapper swiper\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"carousel\" aria-label=\"Image Carousel\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-image-carousel swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"1 of 2\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Hum-Laundry-768x620.jpg\" alt=\"Hum Laundry\" \/><\/figure><\/div><div class=\"swiper-slide\" role=\"group\" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" aria-label=\"2 of 2\"><figure class=\"swiper-slide-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"swiper-slide-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Human-Laundry-internal.jpg\" alt=\"Human Laundry-internal\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-22494a8 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"22494a8\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cd8ed3c\" data-id=\"cd8ed3c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-48e7d34 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"48e7d34\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In spite of massive efforts to help the survivors, about another 9,000 died in April, and by the end of June 1945 another 4,000 had died.\u00a0 Quite a number of these deaths were, sadly, due to the wrong food\/diet being administered.\u00a0 The British troops and medical staff tried these diets to feed the prisoners, in this order:<\/p><ul><li>Bully beef from Army rations. Most of the prisoners&#8217; digestive systems were in too weak a state from long-term starvation to handle such food.<\/li><li>Skimmed milk. The result was a bit better, but still far from acceptable.<\/li><li>Bengal Famine Mixture. This is a rice-and-sugar-based mixture which had achieved good results after the Bengal famine of 1943, but it proved less suitable to Europeans than to Bengalis because of the differences in the food to which they were accustomed.\u00a0 Adding the common ingredient paprika to the mixture made it more palatable to these Europeans and recovery started.<\/li><\/ul><p><strong>The following is a more detailed account of the involvement of the 63<sup>rd<\/sup> (OY) A\/Tank Regt RA, plus the arrival of further military units :-<\/strong><\/p><p>On arrival at Belsen camp gates, Lt Col Taylor tells Josef Kramer that the S.S. Administrative Staff are to hand in their weapons.\u00a0 Kramer answers that they could not enter the camp unarmed and they were required to protect the food supplies.\u00a0 Lt Col Taylor agrees \u201c<em>he can keep his arms for the present but that for every inmate of the camp who is shot one S.S. man will be executed<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 Lt Col Taylor demands the camp records from Josef Kramer who reports that they have been destroyed on the orders of the Hauptwirtschaftsampt in Berlin.<\/p><p>With rumours of the liberation beginning to circulate amongst the prisoners, there come reports of prisoners rioting in the cookhouses, leaving no food remaining and Hungarian guards shooting several internees. \u00a0When this is investigated, Josef Kramer is ordered to carry one of the wounded to the hospital block.\u00a0 Prisoners then loot the clothing stores and take possession of empty huts in the SS compound.\u00a0 British Army soldiers fire shots over the heads of former prisoners in an attempt to keep order.\u00a0 Prisoners loot Block 50, the tents from this store begin to appear all over the concentration camp.\u00a0 Despite British armed guards and a Sherman tank being tasked with protecting the contents of the food store (Block 9) and Gem\u00fcsekeller (<em>Vegetable Cellar\/Store<\/em>), they are successfully looted by prisoners.\u00a0 Lt Derrick Sington (from the 14 Amplifier Unit, Intelligence Corps) is sent into the camp and broadcasts \u201c<em>The Germans have nothing more to do with this camp.\u00a0 The camp is now under the control of the British Army. \u00a0Food and medical aid are being rushed up immediately.\u00a0 Obey our orders and instructions.\u00a0 By so doing you will help us and it is the best way by which you can help yourselves<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50475d2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50475d2\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ab593a4\" data-id=\"ab593a4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ddcaabe elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"ddcaabe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bergen-Belsen-Barracks-Main-gate.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-1764\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bergen-Belsen-Barracks-Main-gate.jpg 586w, https:\/\/www.qooh.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bergen-Belsen-Barracks-Main-gate-350x203.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-016e3bf\" data-id=\"016e3bf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-087709a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"087709a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The next day, April 16<sup>th<\/sup>, SS Administrative Staff of Camp 2 in Bergen-Belsen Barracks are disarmed and arrested.\u00a0 Major Leonard Berney of 817 Military Government Detachment (<em>responsible for the general administration of Bergen-Belsen<\/em> <em>barracks<\/em>) discovers a German supply depot in the Barracks, stocked with many tons of potatoes, tinned meat, dried milk, sugar, cocoa, grains and other foodstuffs.\u00a0 Next to this store was a bakery capable of producing 40,000 3lb loaves per day.\u00a0 In addition to these, a dairy was found in Bergen (approx 3 km&#8217;s from Belsen) with a daily production capacity of large amounts of milk, butter and cheese.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-bfd0103 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"bfd0103\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-72392bf\" data-id=\"72392bf\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fcfb911 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fcfb911\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On the 17<sup>th<\/sup> April, all remaining SS personnel are disarmed, with Joseph Kramer being arrested and paraded around the camp showing the internees he was no longer in charge.\u00a0 On the 18<sup>th<\/sup>, Josef Kramer transferred to the prison camp in Celle.<\/p><p>Burial of the dead begins.\u00a0 At first the guards were ordered to collect the bodies and bury them.\u00a0 Due to the numbers of dead, and the risk of more disease outbreaks, it is decided to use bulldozers to push the piles of bodies into mass graves (this method was used on only two occasions and then mainly because of advanced discomposure).\u00a0 First reports of the conditions of Bergen-Belsen appear in the British press.<\/p><p>April 19<sup>th<\/sup>, and one of the SS Staff used for the burial details commits suicide whilst another two are shot attempting to escape.\u00a0 Their bodies are buried in the mass graves.\u00a0 49 male and 26 female prison SS guards placed under arrest.\u00a0 Of these 75, approx 20 die within the following weeks, some from sepsis (through ptomaine), the majority from Typhus.\u00a0 On 20th April 800 Wehrmacht soldiers leave Bergen-Belsen Barracks to return to the German lines as per the truce of 12 April.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0076419\" data-id=\"0076419\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae9d224 elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-carousel\" data-id=\"ae9d224\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8072fac elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8072fac\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>April 21<sup>st<\/sup> sees the \u2018Human Laundry\u2019 set up and operational with the first 300 prisoners processed.<\/p><p>The remaining German troops are returned to their lines on the 24<sup>th<\/sup> April.\u00a0 Approx 50% of these, including Oberst Schmidt wished to remain as PoW&#8217;s.\u00a0 This request was rejected by General Dempsey (Comd of British 2nd Army).\u00a0 The B\u00fcrgermeisters of Celle and other towns are paraded at a Mass Grave to witness the dead.\u00a0\u00a0 Evacuation of medically fit prisoners begins from Bergen-Belsen Barracks to Displaced Persons (DP) route.<\/p><p>Burial backlog completed on the 28<sup>th<\/sup> April.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bergen-Belsen Barracks strafed by the Luftwaffe, bombing one of the hospitals in the DP camp, injuring and killing several patients and Red Cross workers.<\/p><p>All arrested SS camp staff transferred to prison in Celle on 29<sup>th<\/sup> April.\u00a0 Hitler commits suicide on 30<sup>th<\/sup> April.\u00a0 May 4<sup>th<\/sup> is the day of surrender of the German forces in northern Germany.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a03550a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a03550a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4223bc6\" data-id=\"4223bc6\" 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class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-9d01c8f\" data-id=\"9d01c8f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5fe8d61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5fe8d61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On May 19<sup>th<\/sup>, approx 14,000 former prisoners have been admitted to the various hospitals in Bergen-Belsen Barracks. \u00a0The last 421 internees evacuated from Belsen to Bergen-Belsen Barracks.\u00a0 Burning of the camp begins by flame-throwing &#8220;Bren-gun&#8221; carriers and \u201cChurchill Crocodile\u201d tanks.\u00a0 And Shortly after 1800 hrs on 21<sup>st<\/sup> May, \u00a0the last remaining Block of Belsen burnt to the ground (the former SS part of the camp remained).<\/p><p>More internees are becoming fit to travel, and by May 21<sup>st<\/sup> 17,000 have been repatriated to cities and countries throughout Europe with more following daily. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-20c289c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"20c289c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-978e114\" data-id=\"978e114\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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because they were given the wrong type of food by well-meaning British Soldiers).<\/p><p>On 8<sup>th<\/sup> July a Conference of 54 Jewish communities in Germany was held in Bergen-Hohne. \u00a0The representatives agree to elect a Central Jewish Representative Council.\u00a0 First edition of Unzer Sztyme (<em>Our Voice<\/em>) is published on 12<sup>th<\/sup> July \u2013 this was a publication of the Central Committee for the Liberated Jews in the British Zone.<\/p><p>September 17<sup>th<\/sup> sees the Trial of &#8216;Josef Kramer and Forty-Four others&#8217; begins at 30 Lindenstra\u00dfe, L\u00fcneburg.\u00a0 On September 25<sup>th<\/sup> the Jewish memorial consecration ceremony is held.<\/p><p>In October 1945 the British Military Government orders the German Provincial Government in Hannover to set up the appropriate memorial &#8216;to ensure that the memory of infamy of the concentration camps does not fade&#8217; 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