5,000 Jews taken from Auschwitz and marched to Belsen are corralled into a barn. The Germans set the barn on fire. Many thousands more were burned to death. Germans would shoot the heads of those who tried to escape during the fire. They find smoldering logs strewn with the bodies of recently cremated victims.
British Tanks enter the camp, freeing thousands of remaining emaciated prisoners.
The British discover first hand the evidence of the horrors that had taken place there. Despite liberation 300 prisoners would die per day over the next two weeks as a result of malnutrition, the effects of torture and illness. For five days prior, no food or water was available for any of the stranded prisoners. Belsen provided the proof and news to stir the world, albeit years late, to the true horrific depths of the Holocaust. American troops reach Nuremberg.