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A couple of weeks or so after the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp, we had occasion to go into the camp — I don’t remember why. Kommandant Kramer and his assistant Irma Grese were still on site and some of the inmates were wandering around, still in their blue-and-white striped ‘uniforms.’ There were still bodies lying around the camp.

Later, when we had returned to camp, the Red Cross brought some of the young inmates into the camp, presumably so they could be looked after away from the dreadful conditions in Belsen. Some of our lads started up a game of football and the young boys from Belsen were eager to join in, but the Red Cross people raced out to stop them, saying they were much too weak and should conserve their energy.

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