The Relief of Belsen(2007)

movie - first aired/released 2007-10-15 - 101 min - audience 5.6

Directed by Justin Hardy

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.