The real narrative with regard to "the Truth about the Bergen-Belsen 'horror camp'". In part narrated by Dr. Russell Barton, who happened to be in that camp, and by Ernst Zündel. Belsen was a recovery camp for sick conscript labourers. In 1945, a typhus outbreak happened there. The Germans agreed a local truce with the Allies and German troops were evacuated from the area. The camp staff remained to supervise the prisoners. The Allies were unable to stop the disease spreading, and at some point decided to make propaganda use of the increasing number of dead conscript labourers. The Allies broke the truce, and set up a bogus "court" to try the camp staff who had voluntarily remained of war crimes. Scenes of an allied soldier driving a bulldozer pushing mounds of corpses into pits were broadcast to the credulous masses.
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Ernst Zündel was born on April 24, 1939, in a small town in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. He emigrated to Canada at the age of 19, where he soon married and became the father of two sons. His career as a graphic artist was successful. Then he dedicated himself to the great task, as he saw it, of redeeming the sullied reputation of his fellow Germans. Through his Samisdat publishing house he distributed worldwide a prodigious quantity of revisionist material. Zündel is perhaps best known for his role as defendant in the “Holocaust Trials” of 1985 and 1988. He was brought to court in Toronto on a charge of “publishing false news,” and specifically for publishing a reprint edition of a booklet entitled Did Six Million Really Die?. Zündel’s next great legal battle was fought out before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal in Toronto for his Internet web site (www.Zündelsite.org). In 2000, he moved to the United States, where he was arrested in 2003 and deported to Germany after two years of solitary confinement in Canada. Put on a show trial in Germany, he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in 2007. He was finally released from prison on March 1, 2012, and lived in his parental home in Germany until his death on 5 August 2017.
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Russell Barton was a British physician. He was one of the 96 London medical student volunteers who went to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, 2 weeks after its liberation in 1945, to help survivors. Barton later became a psychiatrist. In 1968, he wrote about the medical students’ experiences and his understanding of Belsen based on his time there, in an invited article in Purnell’s History of the Second World War. He perceived parallels between the regimes controlling Belsen and National Health Service psychiatric hospitals, noted similar harmful psychological consequences for those held within and commented that the public appeared to turn a blind eye to both. His article outraged readers.
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