Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp

ISBN-13: 9781511541701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 128 str.

(Former) Lt-Colonel Le Berney R. a. T. D.; John Wood; Major-General Nicholas Eeles Cbe

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Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.A. T.D. is the only book to be published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army's uncovering of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945 and its 60,000 prisoners, how the Army dealt with the unprecedented horror that existed in the camp, how the surviving prisoners were rescued, how the inmates were evacuated, how the Royal Army Medical Corps established the world's largest hospital to care for the many thousands of sick and emaciated ex-inmates, how the survivors were rehabilitated and cared for, how they were repatriated to their own countries, why many thousand refused to return 'home' and the eventual establishment of the Belsen Displaced Persons camp, the largest DP camp in Germany. The author of this book was a senior British Army officer who participated in the liberation of the Camp, who was in charge of evacuating the ex-prisoners to the vast Rehabilitation Camp that the Army set up, and who was then appointed as the Commandant of that Camp until its management was handed over to the United Nations, and who gave evidence against the SS guards at the Belsen War Crimes Trial. Leonard Berney is interviewed in 'Night Will Fall', a documentary about the liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. The DVD of the documentary is the perfect accompaniment to this book, available here: http: //www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Will-Fall-Andr%C3%A9-Singer/dp/B00P6OOEQG Foreword by Nanette Blitz Konig, former classmate of Anne Frank; Foreword by Major-General Nicholas Eeles CBE, General Officer Commanding Scotland and Chairman of the Royal Artillery Historical Trust; and Introduction by Joshua Oppenhemer, Oscar nominated film director whose work include 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of Silence', both of which document the genocide that took place during the Indonesian killings of 1965-66,