Duke of Gloucester Attends Ceremony For 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

On April 26, the Duke of Gloucester attended a mourning ceremony in connection with the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

The German President, Joachim Gauck, was also in attendance.

Bergen-Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp situated near Hanover in Northern Germany. Over 52,000 people died in the camp, including the famous diarist Anne Frank and her elder sister Margot.

Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British Troops in April 1945, a month before the Second World War ended in Europe.

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