The Relief of Belsen

Overview

In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.

Cast

Katrine Bach

Lotti Burns

Simon Paisley Day

Major Stadler

Oliver Ford Davies

Martin Lipscomb

Iain Glen

James Johnston

Corin Redgrave

Glyn Hughes

Jemma Redgrave

Jean McFarlane

Tobias Menzies

Derrick Sington