Why Is This Camp Better Than Auschwitz

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The camp wasn 't an extermination camp, it was a detention camp. It was meant to hold prisoners who could be exchanged for Germans in Allied territories, but as the Russian army was approaching Auschwitz and other camps, many of the able to work prisoners of those camps were taken to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. It was said to have been better than Auschwitz until late 1944. The camp could have only held around 10,000 people, and during the winter of 1944, there were around six times more than that. This caused conditions to quickly worsen, and made Bergen-Belsen infamously hell-like. There were too many people to feed, and epidemics like typhus, typhoid fever, and dysentery were rising. This does not begin to even address the cruelty of the SS