The 11th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army which was created in March 1941 during the Second World War. The division was formed in response to the unanticipated success of
Valentine tanks of the 11th Armoured Division gather near a church during an exercise in Northern Command, 16 October 1941.
King George VI inspects Crusader tanks of the 11th Armoured Division in January 1943.
An ammunition carrier of the 11th Armoured Division explodes after being hit by a mortar round during Operation Epsom on 26 June 1944.
Challenger tanks of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured Division, passing through Flers on 17 August 1944
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp,
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…via a captured bridge, it moved towards the Weser, reached by leading elements near Stolzenau on 5 April. A week later, the 11th Armoured liberated the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. A local agreement with German commanders designed to prevent the spread of typhus made it possible to declare the neighbourhood of the camp a neutral…
View of the camp after liberation
Memorial to Soviet prisoners of war
Bergen Belsen crematorium in April 1945
A British Army bulldozer pushes dead bodies into a mass grave at Belsen, April 19, 1945