Bergen-Belsen gas chamber? "In Lueneburg, Germany, a Jewish
physician, testifying at the trial of 45 men and women for war
crimes at the Belsen and Oswiecim [Auschwitz] concentration
camps, said that 80,000 Jews, representing the entire ghetto of
Lodz, Poland, had been gassed or burned to death in one night at
the Belsen camp." Associated Press story, 1945 Immediately after
the war, in the Spring of 1945, the majority of Americans
believed that there had been homicidal gas chambers in most of
the Nazi concentration camps, certainly in Dachau, Buchenwald
and Bergen-Belsen. After seeing the horrible newsreels of
thousands of dead bodies in the camps, there was no doubt in
most people's minds that the Nazis had carried out mass gassings
in Germany, as well as in the death camps in what is now Poland.
Even today, news reports confirm that there were gas chambers at
Bergen-Belsen, as well as at Buchenwald and Dachau. In an
article published on April 3, 1995, U.S.News & World Report
described Dachau as a "Nazi deat