ePub American Legends: The Life of Etta James by Charles River Editors in History

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Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A Personal Account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.A. T.D. is the only book to be published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army’s uncovering of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945 and its 60;000 prisoners; how the Army dealt with the unprecedented horror that existed in the camp; how the surviving prisoners were rescued; how the inmates were evacuated; how the Royal Army Medical Corps established the world’s largest hospital to care for the many thousands of sick and emaciated ex-inmates; how the survivors were rehabilitated and cared for; how they were repatriated to their own countries; why many thousand refused to return ‘home’ and the eventual establishment of the Belsen Displaced Persons camp; the largest DP camp in Germany. The author of this book was a senior British Army officer who participated in the liberation of the Camp; who was in charge of evacuating the ex-prisoners to the vast Rehabilitation Camp that the Army set up; and who was then appointed as the Commandant of that Camp until its management was handed over to the United Nations; and who gave evidence against the SS guards at the Belsen War Crimes Trial. Leonard Berney is interviewed in 'Night Will Fall'; a documentary about the liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. The DVD of the documentary is the perfect accompaniment to this book; available here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Will-Fall-Andr%C3%A9-Singer/dp/B00P6OOEQG Foreword by Nanette Blitz Konig; former classmate of Anne Frank; Foreword by Major-General Nicholas Eeles CBE; General Officer Commanding Scotland and Chairman of the Royal Artillery Historical Trust; and Introduction by Joshua Oppenhemer; Oscar nominated film director whose work include 'The Act of Killing' and 'The Look of Silence'; both of which document the genocide that took place during the Indonesian killings of 1965-66;