| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
x, 274 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [247] - 257) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Prologue: Approaching end -- What was known -- "You are free" 12-16 April 1945 -- The plan -- Frustrations: 18-23 April 1945 -- The chaplain's tale -- Reinforcements: Camp 1, 24 April - 2 May 1945 -- The Hospital: Camp 2, 21 April - 2 May 1945 -- "Would we mind?" -- Transformations: Camp 2, 2-21 May 1945 -- Burning the huts -- The "Holiday camp" -- "Our northern hosts" -- Divisions -- The Belsen trial -- Afterlives -- Judgements -- Appendix one: Death rate at Belsen -- Appendix two: External evacuation from Belsen -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Summary |
A documentary filmmaker draws on Allied records, diary excerpts, and the testimony of survivors to describe the 1945 liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British, exploring the humanitarian and medical issues surrounding the camp's liberation. |
| Subject |
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation -- Germany.
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Concentration camp inmates -- Medical care -- Germany.
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| ISBN |
0805242325 |
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9780805242324 |
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