Bergen Belsen was created in 1942 by Heinrich Himmler, and was liberated by the British Army April 15, 1945.
Bergen-Belsen was originally created in 1943.
Heinrich Himmler started Bergen Belsen in 1942.
Bergen-Belsen contained no gas chambers.
Bergen-Belsen was in between big and small.So it was about medium sized.
Jews and criminals typically went to Belsen. Towards the end of the war as the Allies were nearing, inmates from all other camps came to Belsen.
Bergen-Belsen was not an extermination camp like Auschwitz. However, most victims of Bergen-Belsen perished from starvation, typhus, or were shot.
There are several testimonies of Witnesses who were put into the concentration camp in Belsen.
Bergen-Belsen became a concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler in 1940.
Conditions at Bergen-Belsen at the liberation were horrid. See Related Links below.
Bergen Belsen was opened in 1942 and was liberated by the British in April 1945.
Bergen-Belsen was a concentration camp. It was NOT a death camp.