Does anyone have recommendations of books or articles containing accounts of the liberation of Belsen by British troops. My fathers diary recounts an incident regarding people from the local villages being made to file past bodies of inmates along side the bodies of two overweight German soldiers. I have found mention of a similar incident in the IWM sound archives but wondered if any other accounts of this or similar incidents exist. I have no idea what my father was doing there but know he sometimes drove an armoured bulldozer (he remembered digging a pit to bury cattle around a field hospital in Normandy) and also drove his senior officers in an armoured car. Like many men who visited the camp he never talked of the experience and we were unaware until after his death.
There are a mass of threads here on Belsen, so you may find recommendations there and a relatively recent thread refers to a bulldozer used at the camp.
Some threads here, Jill, that you may or may not have already seen: Belsen-April 1945. 618 Government Military Detachment new member Help needed - British units at liberation of Belsen?
Hi Jill - What is your father’s name? Do you have any war records for him? My grandfather was in 113th DLI.
Liberation of Belsen Concentration Camp. 8th Rifle Brigade half tracks passing Belsen Concentration Camp, 15 April 1945. To read more, have a look at D-Day to VE-Day - 8th Rifle Brigade
