article_snippet.sent: Amid the horror of a Nazi concentration camp, liberated by the British Army 70 years ago this week, love blossomed against all the odds between an emaciated inmate and one of the soldiers sent to arrest an emaciated inmate .
article_snippet.sent: This week survivors and liberators of the notorious Bergen-Belsen camp in northern Germany gathered to commemorate the day British soldiers entered British gates and began the task of saving as many of the 60,000 starving inmates as was possible.
article_snippet.sent: Bergen-Belsen's SS commandant, the cruel and tyrannical Joseph Kramer, was among those Norman helped to round up and capture.
article_snippet.sent: (r) Bergen Belsen was located in northern Germany, south-west of the town of Bergen itself.
article_snippet.sent: From 1941 ro 1945 almost 50,000 people were killed there along with 20,000 Soviet inmates .
article_snippet.sent: The Camp was liberated on 15 April 1945 by the British 11th Armoured Division and soldiers discovered roughly 60,000 starved, and ill prisoners inside.
article_snippet.sent: 13,000 unburied corpses littered the ground around The Camp when 13,000 unburied corpses arrived .
article_snippet.sent: When the Allies arrived at Bergen-Belsen, it was in the grip of a terrible typhus outbreak, with prisoners dying at a rate of 500 a day.
article_snippet.sent: A sombre sign erected by the British Army, and photographed by Mr Parsons, documents at least part of that grisly death tool, revealing that 13,000 people perished even after troops came to 13,000 people aid.
article_snippet.sent: Shortly after The 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 Hitler portrait which adorned them, were consumed by flames.
article_snippet.sent: As a crowd of people watch on, British troops burn the buildings to the ground .
article_snippet.sent: Around 500 people were dying per day of typhus and starvation when the Allies arrived .
article_snippet.sent: 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: Gena said: 'Today it is hard to imagine what it was like in the camp, people so thin and so defeated that it was hard to tell if they were men or women. '
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: Send off: In dramatic scenes soldiers line up in front of a stage as the camp is torched, bringing to an end the suffering .