Description Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A personal account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R.
This is his personal account of his experience of the L.
In August 1944, he was in Normandy as the Staff Officer, Anti-Aircraft Defence, of XIII Corps of the British 21st Army.
He took part countering The Blitz and the V1 flying bomb attacks.
At the beginning of 1939, he and his Anti-Aircraft Regiment were mobilized for full-time military service in the defence of London.
After leaving St Paul\'s School, Hammersmith, in 1938, he joined the Territorial Army as a Second Lieutenant.
About the author Leonard Berney (1920-2016) was born in London.
Forewords by Nanette Blitz Konig, Belsen survivor and former classmate of Anne Frank, and Major-General Nicholas Eeles CBE, with the introduction by the Oscar(R)-nominated film director, Joshua Oppenheimer.
It continues with how the survivors were rehabilitated and cared for, how they were repatriated to their own countries, why many thousand refused to return \'home\' and the eventual establishment of the Belsen Displaced Persons camp, the largest DP Camp in Germany.
It describes how the Army dealt with the unprecedented horror that existed in the camp, how the surviving inmates were evacuated and how the Royal Army Medical Corps established the world\'s largest hospital to care for the many thousands of sick and emaciated ex-inmates.
This is the only book to be published that recounts the events that led up to the British Army\'s uncovering of the Nazi Concentration Camp and its 60, 000 prisoners.
Leonard Berney went on to give evidence against the SS guards at the Belsen War Crimes Trial.
Who went on to oversee the evacuation of the ex-prisoners to the vast Rehabilitation Camp that the Army set up, and who was then appointed as the Commandant of that Camp until its management was handed over to the United Nations. a senior British Army officer who participated in the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp.
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Description Liberating Belsen Concentration Camp - A personal account by (former) Lt-Colonel Leonard Berney R
