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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. An estimated 50,000 prisoners died there, as well as 20,000 Soviet prisoners of war (POWs).[1][better source needed] Up to 35,000 of them died of typhus just before and after the camp was freed.[2][better source needed]

  1. Oppenheimer, Paul (1996). From Belsen to Buckingham Palace. Nottingham: Quill Press. ISBN 0-9536280-3-5.
  2. "Bergen-Belsen", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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