Blog on Bergen Belsen Research Paper second genre

Bergen Belsen was a one of the most horrific concentration camps during the third Reich. The leader of the camp was Josef Kramer nicknamed the beast of Belsen.  Unlike Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen did not use gas chambers and killed prisoners by working them to death and starving them. It was not just a camp for Jews but also political prisoners and gypsies.  As the camp started to lose its resources it stopped giving the prisoners food and they began to starve. A camp that was meant for 10,000 ended holding 60,000 and not having enough resourced to feed all of them. Before it was liberated 50,000 people died of starvation, disease or hard work. After liberation, 10,000 more died in DP camps or while they were on their way to get medical aid. The camp received its population from evacuated camps because of the advancing allied front. As more and more camps were being liberated by the allies the Nazis were thinking of installing gas chambers for quick and easy execution of the prisoners. Josef Kramer wanted all of the prisoners to suffer and assured the rest of the nazis that the prisoners would die off before the allies come 5 miles near the camp. Still the prisoners clung to life which led to an evacuation of the camp but before they got the chance the SS were ambushed by the British and captured. One of the many that died in Belsen were Anne Frank which was a famous diarist during the holocaust. Most of the dead have not been able to be recognized publicly but we all need to remember the horrific times of the holocaust and the great sacrifices people had to make to survive.