Bergen-Belsen Photographs 1945

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Bergen-Belsen Photographs 1945

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Photographs taken following the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany during World War II.

0.2 Linear feet; 2 boxes

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Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)

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Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp in north Germany near the city of Celle and was located between the villages of Bergen and Belsen. The camp was originally built in 1940 as a prisoner-of-war camp for Belgium and French prisoners and in 1941 it was named Stalag 311. But in April 1943 it was designated as a concentration camp to be administered by the SS and was given the name Bergen-Belsen. Its purpose was to operate as a detention camp for prisoners who might be exchanged for ...