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KL BERGEN BELSEN

"Brrigadier Glyn Hughes was scarcely able to describe the atrocious scenes:

no description nor photograph could really bring home the horrors that were outside the huts, and the frightful scenes inside were much worse. There were variuos sizes of piles of corpses lying all over the camp, some outside the wire and some in between the huts. The compounds themselves had bodies lying about them. The gutters were full and within huts there were uncountable numbers of bodies, some even in the same bunks as the living. Near the crematorium were signs of filled in mass graves, and outside to the left of the botttom compound was an open pit half full of corpses ..."

"One young girl remembered having been left for dead on one of these piles of bodies:

I am convinced that many of the bodies heaped on to the piles to await cremation still had life though only just. Maybe they had collapsed from starvation and had been collected from the groundas though they were dead. This is how i was found when the allies marched into Belsen. On top of a heap of corpses, awaiting my final resting place-the funeral pyre."

 

Source: Reilly, Jo. Cesarani, David. Kushner, Tony. Richmond, Colin.  Belsen in History and Memory. Frank Cass 1997

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