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4. Bergen-Belsen liberation: Tank driver John Darby recalls opening gates *Some images are not for work
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 11:44 PM
Apr 15
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-32314874


snip-"Seventy years ago British troops entered the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. One of those to witness the horrors first hand was John Darby, who used his Sherman tank to open the gates. This is his story.

On 15 April 1945, shuffling along the road are a dozen or so German officers who, in fractured bursts of English, speak of "prison camp", "disease", "typhus"


snip-""I was the first there to discover it.

"We knew it was a camp, but it wasn't an extermination camp - but people died and were piled up in beds and round and about like rotten logs of wood, which we could see at a distance."



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