Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Liberation of Bergen-Belsen: how a lack of protective clothing cost lives

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par Susan L. Carruthers, Professor of History, University of Warwick

Clothing can kill. So, too, can the absence of personal protective equipment. For decades, the medical establishment has understood the role of fabric in both spreading contagion and guarding against its transmission — but never with greater urgency than 80 years ago.

On April 15 1945, British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Celle in northern Germany. Shocking scenes awaited behind the barbed wire.

On entry, British personnel found an epidemic of typhus decimating…

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