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Bergen Belsen Remembered By Holocaust Survivors
Around 90 holocaust survivors and state officials have gathered at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany where 70,000 people perished, including Anne Frank.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the former camp's liberation on 15th April 1945 when British soldiers stumbled across Bergen-Belsen finding more than 10,000 bodies when they entered it.
The German president Joachim Gauck thanked the British soldiers who liberated the Nazi camp citing them as "ambassadors of a democratic culture who were not looking for revenge".
The Duke of Gloucester and the German President also attended commemorations at the site.
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