article_snippet.sent: Belsen was a Nazi concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany.
article_snippet.sent: Belsen was initially intended to hold prisoners of war, but in 1943, parts of the camp became a 'transit camp' for, mainly Jewish, civilian prisoners, .
article_snippet.sent: the camp became the final resting place of some 20,000 prisoners of war and 50,000 Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and disabled, and was is burned to the ground after Nazi liberation by British and Canadian troops in April 1945.
article_snippet.sent: This ended abruptly on April 15, 1945 when the 11th Armoured Division of the Territorial Army liberated Bergen-Belsen.
article_snippet.sent: Up in smoke: Bergen-Belsen, which became the final resting place of 20,000 POWs and 50,000 Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and people with disabilities is burned to the ground after liberation in 1945 .