Chronology of World War II
Thursday, June 21st
Destruction of Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, June 1945 -- A rifle salute was fired in honor of the dead, the British flag was run up at the same moment as a flame-thrower set fire to the last hut. A German flag and portrait of Hitler went up in flames inside the hut. This was the camp where Anne Frank and her sister, Margot, died