M. For once I agree with you. Belsen wasn't an extermination camp, but when it was liberated by the Allies, they found 13,000 corpses strewn around the place. Most presumably had died from malnutrition.

In fact, IIRC, the extermination camps were all in Poland, because the Nazis wanted to make sure the German people didn't know the full extent of the horror that was being conducted in their name.

Oddly enough, Ewan MacColl made the same mistake as I just made when he wrote the script for the Travelling People:

Some of them were gassed at Belsen,
Some at Buchenwald did fa'.
Others kennt the Auschwitz ovens:
Men and women, bairns and a'.

Whatever. Names like Belsen, Auschwitz and Buchenwald will remain forever as reminders of the evil depths to which humanity can sink when people of good conscience do nothing, expect maybe look the other way. Similar reminders can be found in discrimination against gypsies, travellers, gays or any other vulnerable minority.

"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me."

Horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.