On a wind-blasted heath south of Hamburg, the Germans have made a "Park of Remembrance." It is the site of the hell called Belsen, one of the infamous concentration camps and prisons in which 4,000,000 Jews were done t0 death in Nazi times. Though thousands went on to gas chambers elsewhere, most of Belsen's own 30,000 victims died of typhus, starvation and maltreatment in the two weeks before the British liberated the camp. Their graves are" 13 long, low mounds marked simply and grimly: "Here lie buried 1,000 bodies." "Here lie 2,500 bodies." Among those buried in Belsen's...
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