text: After years of suffering behind its barbed wire fences, watching those they loved waste away before their eyes while Nazi guards systematically slaughtered them by the tens of thousands - this is the moment the inmates of Bergen-Belsen watched as the death camp was burned to the ground. Steeped in human misery, these huts once contained the bodies of thousands of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and the disabled, sent to an inhuman death by Adolf Hitler and his demented regime. Diarist Anne Frank, and her sister Margot, also died here. Shortly after the camp was liberated by British and Canadian troops in 1945, it was torched, and at least part of that suffering was destroyed forever as the buildings, along with the Reichskriegs flag and Hitler portrait which adorned them, were consumed by flames. These hellish images, which were taken by British Reverend Charles Martin King Parsons, captured that poignant moment in history for future generations to remember. Infamous: This is the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany as it appeared in the days after it was liberated by British and Canadian troops, adorned with the German Reichskriegs flag (left) and a portrait of Hitler (right) Historic: As a crowd of people watch on, British troops burn the buildings to the ground. These never-before-seen images were captured by Reverend Charles Martin King Parsons, who was one of a handful of chaplains who helped liberate it . Up in smoke: The camp, which became the final resting place of 50,000 Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Nazi opponents and those with disabilities, is burned to the ground after liberation in 1945 . Gone, but not forgotten: The images were uncovered by Tom Marshall, the great-grandson of Mr Parsons, who said he is proud that his great-grandfather was brave enough to take the pictures, so future generations do not forget what happened . Send off: In dramatic scenes soldiers line up in front of a stage as the camp is torched, bringing to an end the suffering inside . Mr Parsons, orginally from Leicestershire, was one of just a handful of British Army chaplains who made it inside the camp, and whose job it would have been to help cure the sick, and offer last comforts to those who were beyond saving. Anne Frank, whose diaries of persecution at the hands of the Nazis became the defining account of the Holocaust, was just one of Bergen-Belsen's many victims. Frank was living in the Netherlands when the Nazis seized it in 1940, leaving them trapped. In 1942 they were forced into hiding in secret rooms hidden inside Otto Frank's office building. They spent two years there, but were anonymously betrayed and sent to the concentration camps. Anne, and her sister Margot, were taken to Bergen-Belsen, where they died of typhus in February 1945, just months before the Allies liberated it. When the Allied troops arrived at Bergen-Belsen, it was in the grip of a terrible typhus outbreak, with prisoners dying at a rate of 500 a day. A sombre sign erected by the British Army, and photographed by Mr Parsons, documents at least part of that grisly death tool, revealing that 13,000 people perished even after troops came to their aid. In other images he documents pits filled with the emaciated corpses of the dead, and cramped buildings filled with the typhus-ridden bodies of those who were still alive. The images were brought to light by Mr Parsons' great-grandson Tom Marshall, 27, who decided to publish the pictures after finding them tucked inside an old box among his grandmother's possessions. Mr Marshall, a photo restorer who lives in Glasgow, said: 'I often come across very interesting historical photographs showing stories that impel me to dig deeper and find out as much as I can about the people in the pictures, and what they did with their lives. 'I never knew him, but my grandmother said he never talked about his time in the war. I didn't know why, but now I understand. 'We had no idea he had taken these pictures, and I feel now is the right time to share them. Words struggle to describe the unbridled horror within.' Charles served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and because he was aged 39 when the Second World War broke out, he initially joined the Home Guard. However he transferred to the regular Army, and was eventually sent to Germany. Charles was one of a handful of British Army chaplains who entered the camp in the days following liberation. The pictures show the temporary sign erected by the British shortly after the camp was liberated, revealing just part of the grim death toll. During the course of the war, Bergen-Belsen became the final resting place for over 50,000 Jews, Poles, Soviets, opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals, and Gypsies. Chilling: This temporary sign was erected by British troops, detailing just a portion of the grisly death total, which eventually reached 50,000 . Sickening: Inside one of the camp hut, the sick and the dying huddle on the floor in the appalling conditions their Nazi captors left them in . Clinging on: Survivors huddle inside tents in the wasteland in the centre of the Bergen-Belsen camp, where diarist Anne Frank also died . Horrific: Around 500 people were dying per day of typhus and starvation when the Allies arrived. The number of bodies was so great that the Nazi captors had given up burying them, and had simply dumped many in the woods . Mr Marshall added: 'Perhaps the most discussed Jewish victim of the Holocaust Anne Frank died in Belsen shortly before the liberation, probably of typhus which was rife among the dying. 'When my great-grandfather arrived at the camp there were nearly 500 people dying each day, from the appalling conditions and the typhus outbreak. 'Along with the other chaplains, medical staff and medical volunteers, he saved many lives and gave both spiritual and medical support to the survivors. 'They were all true heroes - I'm so proud he documented what he saw, because it's important for future generations not to forget.' After the war, Charles returned to his work as a vicar, and raised two children, Tom's grandmother Ruth and sister Joan before dying aged 54, in 1953. Mr Marshall said: 'I never knew him as he died 35 years before I was born but I do know he was a brave man who saved many lives. 'I have also come to learn how important the non-military members of the forces were, and still are, providing essential support and care at times of need. I'm very proud of my great-grandfather and I know that you don't have to be a soldier to fight a war.' Slaughter: More emaciated bodies are piled in one of the many shallow graves that surrounded the camp, located in northern Germany . Mr Parsons (left) took the pictures following the camp's liberation after he went inside with other British troops to tend to the sick. When the camp was discovered, up to 500 people a day were dying there from typhus . Burial: British soldiers and German locals helped to bury the dead in the days after the camp was liberated from the Nazis 70 years ago .
target: British Reverend Charles Martin King Parsons was one of a handful of chaplains to enter Bergen-Belsen camp .
  Captured these images, but never told family about them until they were discovered by grandson Tom Marshall .
  Mr Marshall said he is proud of his grandfather for making sure future generation can never forget what happened .
  WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT .