when british and canadian troops finally entered they found over 13,000 unburied bodies and (including the satellite camps) around 60,000 inmates, most acutely sick and starving. the prisoners had been without food or water for days before the allied arrival, partially due to allied bombing. immediately before and after liberation, prisoners were dying at around 500 per day, mostly from typhus. the scenes that greeted british troops were described by the bbc's richard dimbleby, who accompanied them: