In April 1945, the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby was the primary reporter to enter the liberated Belsen focus camp.
His report describing the unimaginable horror he discovered, was the primary time many listeners had heard the awful reality of what it was prefer to have endured life and loss of life beneath the Nazis.
Round 70,000 individuals died within the Bergen-Belsen camp.
The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby informed Witness Historical past how his father broke down recording the report and why the BBC had been at first reluctant to broadcast it.
Witness Historical past: The tales of our instances informed by the individuals who had been there.
For details about focus camps and the Holocaust go to BBC Bitesize or the BBC Archive.