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    ‘The horrors I saw still wake me at night’: the liberation of Belsen, 75 years on

    As the world prepares to mark the anniversary, a former British soldier and a prisoner he freed recall the Nazi concentration camp
    by Harriet Sherwood Apr 12, 2020 3 minutes
    A young survivor walks along a road lined by the corpses of hundreds of prisoners who died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, in May 1945. Photograph: George Rodger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

    It was a “lovely spring day” when Corporal Ian Forsyth arrived at a place of darkness and death. The 21-year-old wireless operator with the 15th/19th King’s Royal Hussars was among the first British troops to reach the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany 75 years ago this week.

    Former British army corporal Ian Forsyth, now 96, is wearing many military medals. He was one of the first soldiers to liberate Bergen-Belsen.
    Former British army corporal Ian Forsyth, now 96, was among the soldiers who liberated Bergen-Belsen. Photograph: Simon Broughton/ITV

    “We weren’t expecting to see anything – we didn’t know there was such a place. We had been going ahead without any idea there was anything there. I think that was the worst part,” Forsyth, now 96,

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