![View of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Germany, date uncertain. [LCID: 77205]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/72d527e7-fc22-4f8a-ba6a-f329762b3901.jpg "View of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Germany, date uncertain. [LCID: 77205]")
View of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the liberation of the camp. A row of small tents has been pitched outside the barracks. A group of survivors huddles in front of one of the tents.
Item View![The Bergen-Belsen former concentration camp is burned to the ground by British soldiers to prevent the spread of typhus. [LCID: 75137]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/71de091d-6cb0-4c76-bb3c-fdcd6e3057a1.jpg "The Bergen-Belsen former concentration camp is burned to the ground by British soldiers to prevent the spread of typhus. [LCID: 75137]")
Buildings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp are burned to the ground by British soldiers to prevent the spread of typhus. Germany, May 21, 1945.
Item View![Soon after liberation, camp survivors eat near scattered corpses. [LCID: 74108]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/497d8c0e-d33f-437d-9488-c31d8ee2e16b.jpg "Soon after liberation, camp survivors eat near scattered corpses. [LCID: 74108]")
Soon after liberation, camp survivors eat near scattered corpses. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![Soon after liberation, camp survivors bathe in outdoor showers set up by the British. [LCID: 45050]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a7c18d4a-3ff2-4885-8cf7-be45438136b4.jpg "Soon after liberation, camp survivors bathe in outdoor showers set up by the British. [LCID: 45050]")
Soon after liberation, camp survivors bathe in outdoor showers set up by the British. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![Two survivors in front of the women's barracks in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [LCID: 19023]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e0c99f27-38d8-482c-b56b-ed2de0c4c5ac.jpg "Two survivors in front of the women's barracks in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. [LCID: 19023]")
Two survivors in front of the women's barracks in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, April 1945.
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A British soldier watches women SS guards who were forced to carry victims' corpses to mass graves. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![After liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp, British soldiers forced German mayors from nearby towns to view mass graves. [LCID: 74938]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/6b7002a2-e793-48ed-8c30-46f5253be545.jpg "After liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp, British soldiers forced German mayors from nearby towns to view mass graves. [LCID: 74938]")
After liberation of the Bergen-Belsen camp, British soldiers forced German mayors from nearby towns to view mass graves. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![A mass grave soon after camp liberation. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, May 1945. [LCID: 32072]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/28c0796e-f3b3-4d36-a337-fb7b3b893a08.jpg "A mass grave soon after camp liberation. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, May 1945. [LCID: 32072]")
A mass grave at Bergen-Belsen soon after the liberation of the camp. Bergen-Belsen, Germany, May 1945.
Item View![After camp liberation, one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen camp. [LCID: 78261]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/aa67eb4e-d5ca-42bc-8e0d-b98dd6612050.jpg "After camp liberation, one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen camp. [LCID: 78261]")
After camp liberation, one of the mass graves at the Bergen-Belsen camp. Germany, after April 15, 1945.
Item View![A view of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74105a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/35df4011-cba2-4420-a574-5f52757fba1a.jpg "A view of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74105a]")
A view of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after the liberation of the camp. Bergen-Belsen, after April 15, 1945.
The 63rd Anti-tank Regiment and the 11th Armoured Division arrived at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945. When British troops entered the camp, they were totally unprepared for what they found. Inside were about 55,000 prisoners, many of whom were emaciated and ill and in desperate need of medical attention. Thousands of corpses in various stages of decomposition lay littered around the camp.
Item View![Dr. Fritz Klein, a former camp doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners, stands among corpses in a mass grave. [LCID: 13054]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/38e1d2d7-ccc8-467a-85b1-d3443ebdd6cf.jpg "Dr. Fritz Klein, a former camp doctor who conducted medical experiments on prisoners, stands among corpses in a mass grave. [LCID: 13054]")
Dr. Fritz Klein stands among corpses in a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation of the camp. He was required to assist in the burial of inmates who died there. Klein was a camp doctor at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Germany, after April 15, 1945.
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