Bergen-Belsen
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Bergen-Belsen may refer to:
- Stalag XI-CStalag XI-CStalg XI-C Bergen-Belsen, initially called Stalag 311, was a German Army prisoner-of-war camp located near the town of Bergen in Lower Saxony.-Timeline:...
Bergen-Belsen (1940-1943), a German World War II prisoner-of-war camp - Bergen-Belsen concentration campBergen-Belsen concentration campBergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony in northwestern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle...
(1942-1945), on the site of the prisoner-of-war camp - Bergen-Belsen DP campBergen-Belsen DP campNear the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, British forces established a displaced persons camp for refugees after World War II. The site used abandoned German army Panzer barracks for housing facilities, and after November 1945, Jewish refugees were given their own section...
, a displaced persons camp set up by British forces in 1945 near the site of the concentration camp - Belsen (Bergen)Belsen (Bergen)Belsen is a village within the German borough of Bergen in the northern part of Celle district on the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. It lies about southwest of Bergen and has 331 inhabitants . The Belsen concentration camp was named after it...