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A visitor places a stone of remembrance on the memorial at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany...
Although not an extermination camp, over 300,000 detainees died of stavation and disease before the Allied liberation in Spring 1945...
Many of those who died there had been transferred from other Camps by the Nazis in the final months of the war in an effort to conceal them from the advancing Soviet Armies in the East, who were considered a greater threat to Germany then the Western Allies.

Description
A visitor places a stone of remembrance on the memorial at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany...
Although not an extermination camp, over 300,000 detainees died of stavation and disease before the Allied liberation in Spring 1945...
Many of those who died there had been transferred from other Camps by the Nazis in the final months of the war in an effort to conceal them from the advancing Soviet Armies in the East, who were considered a greater threat to Germany then the Western Allies.