How One Canadian Soldier’s “Crazy” Idea Rescued 34,000 Jews From Extermination Camps April 1945, Bergen Bellson camp, Germany. British tanks rolled through the gates, finding thousands of Jews and prisoners who had survived Nazi extermination and concentration camps across Europe. Instead of liberation, they found hell on earth. The smell hit the soldiers first, a thick wall of death and disease that made grown men fall to their knees and vomit. Bodies lay stacked like firewood between the barracks. 60,000 people, more skeleton than human, stumbled through mud mixed with human waste. This was Bergen Bellson, and this was liberation. The numbers told a story that words could not. In the first week after British and Canadian forces arrived, 400 people died every single day. Not from Nazi bullets, not from gas chambers. They died after being saved. They died in the arms of their rescuers……….
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