What the records say
- When
- 7 Apr 1945 – 12 Apr 1945
- Kind
- Massacre
- Coordinates
- 52.63° N, 10.08° E
- Description
- 1945 massacre of Nazi concentration camp escapees
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Celle massacre
1945 massacre of Nazi concentration camp escapees
The Celle massacre was a massacre of concentration camp inmates that took place in Celle, Prussian Hanover, in the last weeks of the Second World War. On 8 April 1945 over 3,000 internees being transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were killed in an Allied air raid and subsequent attacks on survivors by SS guards, Gestapo, and Nazi party officials, as well as members of the public.
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