Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard) on Nostr: 15 April 1945. British Royal Artillery troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp ...
15 April 1945. British Royal Artillery troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen. Anne Frank had died there a few weeks earlier.
My grandfather was one of the British troops. When asked, he refused to speak about it. He still occasionally had nightmares 60 years later on.
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