Eighty years onwards the survivors and families remember the horrors of Camp

There were rumors. There were air photos. There was a written certificate of several escapes. But there was a need for the release of the shocking reality of the Nazi concentration camps.

Nowhere was this more true than when the British and Canadian troops advanced to the camp in Bergen-Belsen, near Hanover, in April 1945.

A truce with local German commanders allowed them to enter without a fight. They were greeted with stomach views of death, an arrogant panorama of human suffering.

The troops estimated that there were 13,000 uninitiated corpses. Another 60,000 enchanted, sick, spectral survivors stood and lay among them.

On Sunday, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Belsen’s liberation, more than a thousand survivors and families will attend commemorative events at the camp.

“For me, Belsen was the supreme blasphemy,” wrote a British soldier Michael Bentin, who continued to become a well -known entertainment after World War II.

Other chronicles who make films and Derasti struggled to convey with words and pictures of scenes that made unwanted invasions into their minds.

BBC Richard Dimbbi was the first television operator to enter the camp shortly after the Liberation. In his remarkable broadcast, he included the words: “This day in Belsen was the most horrible in my life.”

Belsen’s fame soon stood out, not only because of the freezing stories of journalists, soldiers and photographers whose testimonies were sent all over the world, but because it was found with all his grotesquely intact.

Other camps to the east, such as the camps of the death of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, or were destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet progress, or to be emptied by their prisoners.

In Belsen, huts, barracks, evidence remained.

There were witnesses, perpetrators, victims in Belsen.

It was there that many of these prisoners from the eastern concentration camp were. Overcrowding led to dysentery, malnutrition and typhoid.

There were no gas chambers in Belsen. It was Nazi cruelty and incompetence that reported the 500 deaths a day in which the camp withstands.

And the greater part of them came in the last weeks of the war, much in April 1945.

While the Third Reich collapsed and freedom came to those of other occupied territories, the dying continued in Belsen: between 50,000 and 70,000 people in total, over 30,000 of those between January and April 1945.

About 14,000 prisoners died after the Liberation, their digestive systems failed to cope with the high -calorie, rich, nourishment offered by well -meaning chefs and medics.

The bigger part was Jews, such as Soviet prisoners, sins and homosexuals among other groups to be absorbed by the horrors of the camp.

Watch on iplayer: Belsen: What did they find – directed by Sam Mendes

Among the survivors and relatives present at the event on Sunday are 180 British Jews. Their journey is organized by Ajex, the Jewish Military Association.

The wreaths will be laid by veterans by AJEX, as well as by dignitaries, including Deputy Minister Angela Rayner.

Psalm will be read by the main rabbi of the United Kingdom Sir Ephram Mirvis.

They will do it against the background of the green atmosphere of Lower Saxony, where the towers, fences and buildings have gone.

This is because, in the end, in order to control diseases, British soldiers decided that they should burn the huts in Belsen.

So today there is little. Visitor center is a focal point near where a handful of memorial stones and crosses are erected.

The inscription of one reads 5000 deaths are resting here – 5000 dead rest here.

This is just one of the graves, one of the memories that pursue increased landscape.