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Last Updated: Friday, 15 April, 2005, 00:09 GMT 01:09 UK
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Audio slideshow: Liberation of Belsen
Horrific scenes greeted British troops as they entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on 15 April 1945. They were accompanied by the BBC's Richard Dimbleby who recorded his first impressions for radio.

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BELSEN REMEMBERED

KEY STORIES

World marks liberation
Witnesses and soldiers remember
The fight against Holocaust denial
'Unspeakable relief' at liberation
'Nobody in Britain had any idea'

IN PICTURES

12-year-old Belsen inmate suffering from typhus. Picture: USHMM Images of horror
What British troops saw in the camp, and the original BBC radio report

In pictures: Belsen anniversary

ON THIS DAY

15 April 1945


RELATED BBC LINKS:
BBC History: Liberation of the camps
People's War

RELATED INTERNET LINKS:
Imperial War Museum
Holocaust Memorial Day
Memorial to Bergen-Belsen
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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