where is bergen belsen concentration camp located?
Germany
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 Bergen remained a quiet base during the first few years of the occupation , experiencing only one large Allied air attack . In 1943 , the U @-@ boat base added two new bunkers , U @-@ Stützpunkt Prien and U @-@ Stützpunkt Weddingen along with a shipyard named Danziger Werft . 

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 Most of the Germans responsible for the operation of the camp were captured and brought to trial . Several were extradited to Yugoslavia and executed . Camp commander Herbert Andorfer and his deputy Edgar Enge were arrested in the 1960s after many years of hiding . Both were given short prison sentences in West Germany and Austria , respectively , though Enge never served any time given his old age and poor health . 

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 During World War II , parts of the fortress complex were used by the Nazi Germany for detention , interrogation , and execution . About 50 @,@ 000 people were executed there , including more than 30 @,@ 000 victims of the Holocaust . Some sections have since been restored ; the Ninth Fort houses a museum and memorial devoted to the victims of wartime mass executions . The complex is the most complete remaining example of a Russian Empire fortress . 

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 In the course of the war , the camp was staffed by 7 @,@ 000 members of the German Schutzstaffel ( SS ) , approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes . Some , including camp commandant Rudolf Höss , were executed . The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp , and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial . One hundred forty @-@ four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully , and on October 7 , 1944 , two Sonderkommando units — prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers — launched a brief , unsuccessful uprising . 

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 Some SS members were subject to summary execution , torture , and beatings at the hands of freed prisoners , displaced persons , or Allied soldiers . American soldiers of the 157th Regiment , who entered the concentration camp at Dachau in April 1945 and saw the human deprivation and cruelty committed by the SS , shot some of the remaining SS camp guards . On 15 April 1945 , British troops entered Bergen @-@ Belsen . They placed the SS guards on starvation rations , made them work without breaks , forced them to deal with the remaining corpses , and stabbed them with bayonets or struck them with their rifle butts if they slowed their pace . Some members of the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps delivered captured SS camp guards to displaced persons camps , where they knew they would be subject to summary execution . 
