{"id":14336,"date":"2022-10-23T07:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/23\/how-the-first-report-from-belsen-concentration-camp-shocked-the-world\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T07:50:19","slug":"how-the-first-report-from-belsen-concentration-camp-shocked-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=14336","title":{"rendered":"How the first report from Belsen concentration camp shocked the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In April 1945, the BBC\u2019s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">His report describing the unimaginable horror he found, was the first time many listeners had heard the bleak truth of what it was like to have endured life and death under the Nazis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Around 70,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby told Witness History how his father broke down recording the report and why the BBC were at first reluctant to broadcast it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p004t1hd\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Witness History<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">: The stories of our times told by the people who were there. <\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For information about concentration camps and the Holocaust visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/topics\/zk94jxs\/articles\/zt48dp3\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Bitesize<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/world-war-two--the-holocaust\/zbdqrj6\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">BBC Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/stories-63317358?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In April 1945, the BBC\u2019s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp.\u00a0 His report describing the unimaginable horror he found, was the first &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}