article_snippet.sent: After years of suffering behind Bergen-Belsen barbed wire fences, watching those they loved waste away before they eyes while Nazi guards systematically slaughtered Nazi guards by the tens of thousands - this is the moment the inmates of Bergen-Belsen watched as the death camp was burned to the ground.
article_snippet.sent: Steeped in human misery, these huts once contained the bodies of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and the disabled, sent to an inhuman death by Adolf Hitler and Adolf Hitler demented regime.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after the death camp was liberated by British and Canadian troops in 1945, Shortly after the camp was liberated by British and Canadian troops in 1945 was torched, and at least part of that suffering was destroyed forever as the buildings, along with the Reichskriegs flag and Adolf Hitler portrait which adorned them, were consumed by flames.
article_snippet.sent: : This is the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany as it appeared in the days after it was liberated by British and Canadian troops, adorned with the German Reichskriegs flag (left) and a portrait of Adolf Hitler (right)
article_snippet.sent: Up in smoke: The camp, which became the final resting place of 50,000 Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and those with disabilities, is burned to the ground after liberation in 1945 .
article_snippet.sent: Anne Frank, whose diaries of persecution at the hands of the Nazis became the defining account of the Holocaust, was just one of Bergen-Belsen's many victims.
article_snippet.sent: In other images Mr Parsons documents pits filled with the emaciated corpses of the dead, and cramped buildings filled with the typhus-ridden bodies of those who were still alive.
article_snippet.sent: During the course of the war, Bergen-Belsen became the final resting place for over 50,000 Jews, Poles, Soviets, opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals, and Gypsies.
article_snippet.sent: Sickening: Inside one of the camp hut, the sick and the dying huddle on the floor in the appalling conditions their Nazi captors left their Nazi captors in .
article_snippet.sent: Clinging on: Survivors huddle inside tents in the wasteland in the centre of the Bergen-Belsen camp, where diarist Anne Frank also died .
article_snippet.sent: The number of bodies was so great that their Nazi captors had given up burying their Nazi captors, and had simply dumped many in the woods .
article_snippet.sent: Slaughter: More emaciated bodies are piled in one of the many shallow graves that surrounded the camp, located in northern Germany .
article_snippet.sent: Burial: British soldiers and German locals helped to bury the dead in the days after the camp was liberated from the Nazis 70 years ago .