Yesterday, I received an e-mail from a man who sent me a copy of a letter, written by a British army officer, which gives an eye-witness account of the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp by British soldiers in April 1945. I thought I knew the story of Bergen-Belsen, but I was wrong! It was much worse than I ever imagined. You can read what I wrote about Belsen on my website, starting here.
This quote from the letter describes how the Belsen prisoners were deliberately starved to death:
The conditions at Belsen camp were ghastly. Obviously it was used as a place where the prisoners could be exterminated slowly, and with least trouble to the Reich. This extermination took place in the form of slow starvation; the rations were a bowl of swede or turnip soup per person every day, and a loaf of rye bread between…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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