What Was Bergen Belsen Like Before It Became A Concentration Camp?

What was bergen belsen like before it became a concentration camp? Why did thousands of prisoners die each day ? Who liberated bergen belsen and what did they do to help the prisoners? When did all the innocent people get there peace and freedom back like it was before everything was taken away? Bergen Belsen was a concentration camp in Germany.The Bergen Belsen camp was around an area close to an Army training camp called the Wehrmacht. Bergen was built in the 1940s and began as a prisoner of war camp for the french and belgian prisoners. the village of Belsen was the first place that was used for a pow camp. It held about 600 French and Belgian prisoners who were housed in army barracks. It stayed as a POW camp until january 1945. Bergen Belsen became a concentration camp in april 1943 and it mainly served as a holding camp for the jews. Most of the people that were held at Bergen Belsen died from being shot or hung and also getting a disease or starving to death. It was not like any other concentration camps.Approximately 50,000 people died in bergen belsen due to starvation and brutality. Also camp officials would trade strong and healthy jews and other prisoners with other governments for money.
By march 1944 bergen belsen turned into a recovery camp which prisoners from other concentration camps that were to sick to work were brought there but they did not receive medical treatment. In late 1944 food rations began to shrink and by 1945 prisoners would have to go for days without food and water. At bergen belsen, sanitary was extremely scarce. It had very few outhouses and water faucets for the thousands of prisoners that were held there for some time.overcrowding and lack water led to diseases like typhus and typhoid fever. This lack of sanitary caused tens of thousands of people to die in just the few first