Timeline Sunday 15 April 1945

Events on Sunday 15 April 1945 1

• 1945 Liberation of Bergen-Belsen British troops uncover mass death at a Nazi camp British forces entering Bergen-Belsen found thousands of unburied corpses and tens of thousands of starving, typhus-stricken prisoners. Footage and photographs from the liberation became some of the first widely seen evidence of Nazi atrocities. Thousands more prisoners died even after liberation despite relief efforts.