The Relief of Belsen

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• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Justin Hardy
• Cast(s): Simon Paisley Day, Oliver Ford Davies, Iain Glen, Corin Redgrave, Jemma Redgrave See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 41min
• Award(s): Broadcast 2008 (Won)
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• Story:
  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.
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