Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| Bergen, Niedersachsen, Germany || KZ Bergen-Belsen

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Robinson fell through the rope on the first attempt to hang him, then painfully strangled to death on the second try. It is commonly thought — thought there does not appear to be any direct evidence for it — that this nationally infamous body-under-the-floorboards murder helped to inspire Edgar Allan Poe‘s classic short story 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
(16 April 1841)

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KZ Bergen-Belsen

Bergen, Niedersachsen, Germany.

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Sunday 15th of April 1945 (x) — The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated by British and Canadian troops.
The first two to reach the camp were a British Special Air Service officer, Lieutenant John Randall and his jeep driver who were on a reconnaissance mission and discovered the camp by chance.