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My late husband was an 18 year old boy who fought his way through Europe and eventually the liberation of Europe. He was with the first troops who liberated Belsen and came face to face with the horrors of that camp. This was an experience which he never forgot and which was with him throughout his life. He also stood guard over the German soldiers and indeed the camp commandants, Irma Griese and Kramer, I think that was his name. I still have in my possession three wooden carvings made by the German soldiers in exchange for cigarettes, one is a lady figure, the second is a elfin like figure playing an accordion and the third an ashtray with the name of the prison camp i.e. Sandbostel 1946.
My husband always said that the ordinary German soldier was a good military man but that the horrors committed in the camps by the fascists was something that should never have been allowed to happen.

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