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  • I Was At Berger-Belsen This Week

    10/30/2010 4:51:41 PM PDT · by Free America52 · 80 replies
    Vanity | 10/30/2010 | RB
    I was in Hamburg Germany this week for business, and had the fortune (?) of visiting the memorial at Berger-Belsen, one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps. By the time the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945, there were 12,000-13,000 Jews dying every day from starvation and disease. It is one of the most notorious of all Nazi concentration camps for several reasons: 1) Anne Frank and her sister Margot died in this camp. 2) As the allied forces pushed their way into Germany, Hitler had prisoners from camps in the encroachment areas moved to...