BBC News, Lancashire
BBCThe Daughter of a BRITISH SOLDIER who helped Liberate the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Exactly 80 years ago SAID The “Horrendous” Sects He Witnessed Thre Had Change His Views About World War Two.
Gunner Herbert Hurst, from Rossendale in Lancashire, WAS 36 When He F The Camp in Nazi Germany on 15 April 1945.
“Before He INTO BELSEN, He DIDNNTETETET The Point of the War,” Explained Barbara Bell.
“But when he saw the Horror there – all the naked body pild Up – he KNEW Adolf Hitler Had to Be Defeted.”
Gunner Hurst, Along with Other Members of the 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Discovered Piles of Rotting Corpses and Thousands of Sick and Starving Prisoners Enduring The Camp’s Filthy, Severely OverCrowded Compounds.
“I Remember Dad Saying He Couelf Smell the Deise Miles Away from the Camp,” Mrs Bell Said.
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Mrs bell said that who she and her siblings knew of them father haad been to Bergen-Belsen, they never spoke about it with him when they were Growing up.
“He Never Talked about it and we Never Asked,” She Said.
“But Dad Kept Official Photographies of Belsen and the Scenes Are Horrendous.”
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“IT WAST IN Discovered the Full Extment of All HE’D SuffERED,” She Said.
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After the war, Mrs Bell Said Her Father RTURNED to Lancashire to “Get on HIS Life, His Job in the Shoe Industry and Bringing Up His Family”.
Mr Hurst Died in 1995 at the Age of 86. It was just a few weeks after the 50th Anniversary of Bergen-Belsen’s Liberation.
Mrs Bell Said Watching the Commons on Television Had “Breed everything back” to his, “All The Emotion He Felt in 1945”.
She Added: “He didn’t sleep that night.
“Dad Was A Gentle Soul and He Remembrered What He Saw at Belsen for the RIS LIFE.”
