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...called Provisional Camp Bergen-Belsen because, unlike other concentration camps, it was originally designed as a "holding pen" for Jews who were to be exchanged for German prisoners of war. Established in 1943, near Hanover in northwestern Germany, Bergen-Belsen was built to contain 10,000 prisoners and was run, like all the camps, by the SS. In 1944 the commandant, SS Major Josef Kramer, later known as the Beast of Belsen, began accepting inmates from other camps who were too frail to continue their slave labor. The population of 15,000 Jews was swollen by thousands of new prisoners...
Admiral Doenitz went on the radio to declare that "the military struggle continues [against] the spreading of Bolshevism." But German soldiers were now surrendering by the tens of thousands. Two days after Hitler's suicide, all German forces in Italy gave up. On May 4 all Wehrmacht troops in northwestern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands surrendered to the British. On May 5 and 6 Doenitz sent Admiral Hans von Friedeburg and General Alfred Jodl to negotiate complete surrender to Eisenhower. The Germans' only goal now was to yield as much territory and as many troops as possible to the Western...
...automatically advances to the NCAA tournament, where the Crimson has gone as far as the Round of 16 (against Stanford in 2003). This season, with defeats of teams such as No. 8 Georgia Tech and No. 14 North Carolina and close losses against No. 1 Stanford and No. 2 Northwestern, the hopes of advancement are high...
...documentarian filming the event reportedly explained that the Northwestern victory was “like Bush winning again...
Even though they ended up losing, letting Northwestern go on to beat Berkeley for the number-one spot, they did better than Harvard has at the NDT in a decade...