How One Canadian Soldier’s “Crazy” Idea Rescued 34,000 Jews From Extermination Camps

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April nineteen forty-five, Bergen-Belsen camp, Germany. British tanks rolled through the gates, finding thousands of Jews and prisoners who had survived Nazi extermination and concentration camps across Europe. Instead of liberation, they found hell on earth. The smell hit the soldiers first, a thick wall of death and disease that made grown men fall to their knees and vomit. Bodies lay stacked like firewood between the barracks. Sixty thousand people, more skeleton than human, stumbled through mud mixed with human waste. This was Bergen-Belsen, and this was liberation.