Brief introduction of Bergen Balzen concentration camp

Bergen Balzen concentration camp is located near Hanover in northern Germany. 1on April 5, 945, when the British liberated this concentration camp, they found about 60,000 bodies. The victim died of hunger and disease. During the five years of the existence of the concentration camp, the German Nazis killed about 70,000 detainees here. At first, it was a Soviet prison camp, and later it held political prisoners, homosexuals, gypsies and famous Jews. Nazi Germany hoped to exchange famous Jews for captured soldiers. From 1940 to 1945, about125,000 people were detained here, and about 70,000 detainees were killed.