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| rdfs:label | - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
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| rdfs:comment | - Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943 parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to accommodate Jews from other concentration camps.
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| map caption | - Location of Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony
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| Caption | - Memorial stone at the entrance to the historical camp area
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| operated by | - German Army, later Schutzstaffel
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| original use | - Prisoner of war camp, later civilian internment camp
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| coordinates type | - region:DE-NI_type:landmark
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| prisoner type | - Jews, Poles, Russians, Dutch, Czechs, Germans, Austrians
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| Location | - Lower Saxony, Northern Germany
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| abstract | - Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943 parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to accommodate Jews from other concentration camps. After 1945, the name was applied to the displaced persons camp established nearby, but it is most commonly associated with the concentration camp. From 1941 to 1945 almost 20,000 Russian prisoners of war and a further 50,000 inmates died there, with up to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first few months of 1945, shortly before and after the liberation. The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division. The soldiers discovered around 53,000 prisoners inside, most of them half-starved and seriously ill, and another 13,000 corpses lying around the camp unburied. The horrors of the camp, documented on film and in pictures, made the name "Belsen" emblematic of Nazi crimes in general for public opinion in Western countries in the immediate post-1945 period. Today, there is a memorial with an exhibition hall at the site.
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