Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
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Bergen-Belsen Template:IPA-de, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas.
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See also
- Holocaust Memorial Day
- Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany
- List of Nazi concentration camps
- Alan Moore (war artist)
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