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By the end of the war my great uncle had served in the Royal Artillery, the Guards Armoured Division and by the end of the war was an artillery intelligence officer with the task of scouting out information about locations of targets and their surrounding areas.

Very late in the war he and a colleague were driving through an area which the Germans had just retreated from to get an accurate assessment of the situation. As they drove along they came in sight of a large fenced enclosure containing buildings and surrounded by watch towers. By this stage the first concentration and extermination camps had already been discovered so they had a fair idea of what they were probably looking at.

They went closer and it became clear that fighting had broken out in the camp. He says that it was also obvious that the guards were already on the losing end of the fight and given what they had heard so far about the other camps which had been discovered they decided that the best idea would be to go away for half an hour or so and let the prisoners mete out their own justice / revenge on the guards and then return to see what help they could be to the survivors. What he saw when he returned and entered the camp utterly sickened him.

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