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Triumph or disaster? After Daybreak brilliantly investigates the emergency operation following the British liberation of Belsen.'The things I saw completely defy description': when British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they uncovered scenes of horror and depravity that shocked the world. But they also confronted a terrible challenge – inside the camp were some 60,000 people, suffering from typhus, starvation and dysentery, who would die unless they received immediate medical attention.After Daybreak is the story of the men and women who faced that challenge – the army stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers, medical students and relief workers who worked to save the inmates of Belsen – with the war still raging and only the most primitive drugs and facilities available. It was, for all of them, an overwhelming experience. Drawing on their diaries and letters, Ben Shephard reconstructs events at Belsen in the spring of 1945 – from the first horror of its discovery, through the agonising process of trying to save the survivors, to the point where Belsen became 'more like a Butlin's Holiday camp than a concentration one'.By the end of June 1945, some 46,000 people had survived at Belsen; but another 14,000 had been lost. Should we therefore see the relief of the camp as an epic of medical heroism – as the British believed? Or was the failure to plan for Belsen and the undoubted mistakes that were made there further evidence of Allied indifference to the fate of Europe's Jews – as some historians now argue? After Daybreak is a powerful and dramatic narrative, full of extraordinary incidents and characters. It is also an important contribution to medical history.
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Concentration camps, Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp), Liberation, Nonfiction, World War, 1939-1945, Medical care, Concentration camp inmates, History, World War II, Bergen-Belsen / Konzentrationslager, Befreiung, Militar, Concentration Camps, Military Medicine, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, History, 20th Century, Bergen-belsen (concentration camp), World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, germany, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british, Holocaust survivors, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, Personal Narratives, Nazi concentration camp inmates, British Personal narratives, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Camps d'internement, Libération, Détenus de camp de concentration nazi, Soins médicaux, Récits personnels britanniques, Liberty, Internment camp inmatesPlaces
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After Daybreak
2009, Random House Publishing Group
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After Daybreak: The Liberation of Belsen, 1945
May 30, 2006, Pimlico
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in English
- New Ed edition
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After Daybreak: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, 1945
November 15, 2005, Schocken
Hardcover
in English
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0805242325 9780805242324
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After daybreak: the liberation of Belsen, 1945
2005, Jonathan Cape
in English
0224073354 9780224073356
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