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The Bergen-Belsen former concentration camp is burned to the ground to halt the spread of typhus. [LCID: 75136]
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Bergen-Belsen is burned to the ground to halt the spread of typhus

Buildings of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is burned to the ground to halt the spread of typhus. Germany, May 21, 1945.

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