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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Nazi concentration camp

PlaceNazi concentration camp concentration campQ7332

Also known as KZ Bergen-Belsen · Belsen · Bergen-Belsen

Country: Germany
Located in: Celle district

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Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to hold Jews from other concentration camps, as a part of the Holocaust.

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