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Nazi Concentration Camp Bergen Belsen Liberated 70 Years Ago

Seventy years ago today British troops witnessed a concentration camp for the first time when together with Canadian forces they liberated Bergen-Belsen. 
 
The camp outside Hannover in northern Germany is where an estimated 70,000 people died.
 
Rob Olver looks at the history of Belsen and one of the darkest chapters in the Second World War.

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