Belsen

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Brian Urquhart was a young British army officer when he stumbled upon what was one of the worst horrors of the Second World War - the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. It was closed-up and deserted by its Nazi administrators but was still home to around 60,000 prisoners. The German officer in charge of the Belsen camp at that time was Josef Kramer. A man known to prisoners as the 'Beast of Belsen'. He was taken out and within months was tried before a British military tribunal. Numerous prisoners came forward to testify against him. The man who allegedly made lampshades out of people's skin was found guilty, and executed on 11 December 1945.