Burning Belsen Camp. Colonel Bird, Allied commander at Belsen, gave the order for the camp to be burned, and flame-throwers were used to set the huts on fire. A rifle salute was fired in honour of the dead, and the Union Jack was hoisted as the flame-throwers set fire to the last hut.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1945, Page 5
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53Burning Belsen Camp. Colonel Bird, Allied commander at Belsen, gave the order for the camp to be burned, and flame-throwers were used to set the huts on fire. A rifle salute was fired in honour of the dead, and the Union Jack was hoisted as the flame-throwers set fire to the last hut. Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 148, 25 June 1945, Page 5
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