Hamburg, Day Two, Bergen-Belsen Memorial

Today, we are off on a pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen Memorial Nazi concentration camp where some 70,000 prisoners lost their lives, including Anne Frank. The grim toll included 30,000 Jews, 20,000 Russians. 15,000 Polish men and women...

"Extermination by Labor". Several large mass graves on site (mounds).

The Nazis instituted camp 'identity politics' meant to divide populations...using
triangle Badges depicting nationalities, lifestyle, religion, region, who arrested by, etc.

When the Brits liberated the camp in April of 1945. some 10,000 bodies littered the grounds, and over 15,000 died within two weeks of the rescue from typhoid, starvation, tuberculosis, etc.Leggi altro