Scourge from Belsen Concentration Camp

On 15 August 1945, Allied troops liberated the Concentration Camp at Bergen-Belsen in Northern Germany. The liberators were confronted with the horrific sight of around 13,000 unburied bodies and 60,000 starving and diseased inmates.

Large numbers of RAF personnel were called upon to care for the survivors and it was one of them who preserved this symbol of cruelty which was used by one of the prison guards.