Caption | The British Army entering the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp 15 Apr 1945 as German and Hungarian guards man the gate. On the right is a loudspeaker truck to inform inmates the camp was under British authority. ww2dbase | |||||||
Photographer | John Morris | |||||||
Source | ww2dbaseImperial War Museum | |||||||
Identification Code | BU3929 | |||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 15 Apr 1945 | |||||||
Photos at Same Place | Bergen-Belsen, Germany | |||||||
Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||
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21 Nov 2019 08:21:01 PM
The British entered the camp under the truce agreement reached 12 Apr 1945 after German officers approached British lines with word of a Typhus-infested camp nearby. German Wehrmacht troops (white armbands) entered the camp with the British. The truce expired before the British could finish the massive clean-up work and the camp was promptly strafed by 4 German Luftwaffe Fw-190 fighters. Three medical orderlies were killed.