In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.

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Katrine BachLotti Burns

Simon Paisley DayMajor Stadler

Oliver Ford DaviesMartin Lipscomb

Iain GlenJames Johnston

Corin RedgraveGlyn Hughes