![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)
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.
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