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<p><P>&#8220;I find it hard even now to get into focus all these horrors, my mind is really quite incapable of taking in everything I saw because it was all so completely foreign to everything I had previously believed or thought possible.&#8221; British Major Ben Barnett&#8217;s words echoed the sentiments shared by medical students, Allied soldiers, members of the clergy, ambulance drivers, and relief workers who found themselves utterly unprepared to comprehend, much less tend to, the indescribable trauma of those who survived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.<br><br>The liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British in April 1945 was a defining point in history&#58; the moment the world finally became inescapably aware of the Holocaust. But what happened after Belsen was liberated is still a matter of dispute. Was it an epic of medical heroism or the culmination of thirteen years of indifference to the fate of Europe&#8217;s Jews? This startling investigation by acclaimed documentary filmmaker and historian Ben Shephard draws on an extraordinary range of materials&#8211;contemporary diaries, military documents, and survivors&#8217; testimonies&#8211;to reconstruct six weeks

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Author

Shephard, Ben, 1948-

Publisher

Schocken Books, Incorporated

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805242324

Category

history

Subjects

History, Medical, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (28 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14