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How the first report from Belsen shocked the world
In April 1945, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Belsen concentration camp.Β
His report describing the unimaginable horror he found was for many listeners around the world the first time they’d heard the bleak truth of what it was like to have endured life and death under the Nazis. Around 70,000 people died in the Bergen-Belsen camp.Β
The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby told Witness History how his father broke down recording the report and why the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ were at first reluctant to broadcast it.
