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The Perpetrators at Belsen
At least 480 people, including around 45 women, had worked at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as guards or members of the headquarters staff. Very few ever had to answer for their crimes before a court of law. 6,468 total views
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Peter Granville Whateley Smith New
Major Peter Granville Whateley Smith who served in the 94th (Dorset & Hants) Field Regiment R.A. 11,875 total views
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Jim Henderson (113th LAA)
Faded photographs which have been weathered by time still convey the brutal horrors a young soldier witnessed when he helped liberate a Nazi death camp. 10,281 total views
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No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory
No 7 Mobile Bacteriological Laboratory. RAMC. 10,726 total views
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History Learning Site Account
When Bergen-Belsen was handed over to British troops in April 1945, little could have prepared them for what they saw at the concentration camp. Belsen had originally been built as a prison for those arrested in Nazi Germany itself. However, as the war in Europe drew to a close in 1945, prisoners from Eastern Europe had been moved to the camp. When the British got to Belsen on April 15th, the prisoners were in appalling conditions and between 400 to 500 were dying each day. 11,607 total views
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Recognise Anyone?
Furthur still from the cine film taken 23rd/24th April. Can you help recognise anyone from the 113th Durham Light Infantry. Royal Artillery LAA? 12,441 total views
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Walter Gallant
Was at the Liberation of Belsen. No unit info known. 11,621 total views
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Sgt. Lewis Stagnetto, 317 FSS, Intelligence Corps
In 1942, Lewis Stagnetto volunteered for the Armed Forces, aged 18, at Glasgow. 11,848 total views
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Eric Trimmer (Medical Student)
Trimmer was born on 11 June 1923 in London. 12,510 total views
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113th Durham Light Infantry at Belsen
Another still from the cine film taken at Belsen (23rd/24th April). 11,357 total views
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