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BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS (EUROPE AND GREAT BRITAIN)
"Together with a group of journalists, Moorehead visited the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in
1945, shortly after discontinuation of action. By reason of heavy bombing, road communications had
been destroyed and no supplies had reached the camp; typhoid fever ensued and hundreds of prisoners
had died as a consequence. The allies arrived on the scene and found a terrible situation. They
delivered provisions and medicine, cremated the dead and burned down the contaminated barracks.
They imprisoned the guards and tortured them and they were so possessed by propaganda about
German 'Huns', that they obviously greatly enjoyed to demonstrate their atrocities to the visiting
journalists. Moorehead reports, 'A young British medical officer and a captain of engineers managed
the camp. The captain was in the best of moods. When we approached the cells of gaoled guards, the
sergeant lost his temper. The captain said: 'This morning we had an interrogation. I'm afraid the
prisoners don't look exactly nice.'
The cells were opened for the journalists. The prisoners lay there, crumpled, covered with gore. The
man next to me made vain attempts to get to his feet and finally managed to stand up. He stood there,
trembling, and tried to stretch out his arms as if fending off blows.
'Up!' yelled the sergeant. 'Come off the wall.'
They pushed themselves off from the wall and stood there, swaying. In another cell the medical
officer had just finished an interrogation. 'Up!' yelled the officer. 'Get up.'
The man lay in his blood on the floor. He propped two arms on a chair and tried to pull himself up.
A second demand and he succeeded in getting to his feet. He stretched his arms towards us: 'Why
don't you kill me off?' he moaned.
'The dirty bastard is jabbering this all morning.' the sergeant stated."
Cyril Connolly, The Golden Horizon, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London
Note: I have not personally read this book and the account above is a translation from English to
German and back again which accounts for grammatical flaw only.
"During the latter half of 1945 (many months after the war's end), I was with British troops guarding
suspect Nazi civilians living on starvation rations in a camp called Sennelager. They were frequently
beaten and grew as thin as concentration camp victims, scooping handfuls of swill from our waste
bins. They could be shot on sight if they ventured close to the perimeter fence. It was a common
trick to throw a cigarette just inside the fence and shoot any prisoner who tried to reach it."
A.W Perkins, Holland-on-Sea. Daily Mail, 22nd April 1995
"Great Britain in August, 1946, 15-months after the war's end, according to the International Red
Cross, had 460,000 German prisoners-of-war slaving for her."
John Thompson, Geneva, August 24th 1946. Chicago Tribune Press Service
"... and in the case of France bringing in a handsome profit for the War Office. 'Upon embarking
from our ports the prisoners were given to understand that they were being sent home; when they
learned upon arrival at British and French ports that they were to be worked indefinitely as slaves,
they became sullen. As one British officer said: 'It takes us several weeks to bring them around to
where they will work hard.' - Arthur Veysey, London, May 28th 1956. Chicago Tribune Press Service
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