What are facts about buchenwald?

Answer 1

• Bergen-Belsen became a concentration camp in 1943.
• It was originally used for trading Jews with Germans in American with the Allies. This never happened.
• It was liberated by the British 11th Armoured Division on April 15, 1945.
• Richard Dimbleby from the BBC was the first reporter to enter Belsen. What he wrote about it was not published until April 19, 1945.
• Located in Lower Saxony, Germany.
• Anne Frank and her sister Margot perished in Belsen.
• Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes was the first Allied Medical Officer to enter Belsen.
• The first commandant of Bergen-Belsen was Adolf Haas. In December 1944 he was replaced by Josef Kramer "The Beast of Belsen".

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Answer 2

they never stopped expanding the site.

the (iconic) railway tracks were added quite late.

there were six structures in Birkenau that housed gas chambers (two converted buildings and four purpose built ones).

the first structures were built with bricks.

there was no grass except outside the gas chambers (people ate it).

Answer 3

1. Bergen-Belsen was liberated on April 15, 1945 by British troops.
2. Anne Frank and her sister Margot are the most famous victims of the camp.
3. The camp was handed over to the British because of the fear of typhus spreading to both sides.
4. Nearly 60,000 people were found at the liberation, 75% being women.
5. It is estimated 50,000 deaths occurred at Belsen. 14,000 of these were between April 15, 1945 - July 1945.
6. The first commandant of Bergen-Belsen was Adolf Haas. He was replaced in December 1944 by Josef Kramer.
7. The Belsen trial was called The Trial of Josef Kramer and 44 Others.
8. It did not have gas chambers.
9. It was the first concentration camp to get public recognition.
10. Hadassah Bimko, a Jewish dentist who lost her family at Auschwitz, was the star witness at the Belsen trial. She was also active in the rehabilitation of the inmates during post-liberation.

Answer 4

Well, one is that there was a zoo in the back of Buchenwald. It was for the Nazi's and their families. Sorry! I only know that one.