Celle massacre
1945 massacre of Nazi concentration camp escapees / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Celle massacre (euphemistically called "Celler Hasenjagd", "hare chase of Celle") was a massacre of concentration camp inmates that took place in Celle, Prussian Hanover, in the last weeks of the Second World War. On 8 April 1945 over 3,000 internees being transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp were killed in an Allied air raid and subsequent attacks on survivors by SS guards, Gestapo, and Nazi party officials, as well as members of the public.[1] Some of the perpetrators of the massacre were later tried but all of those convicted for the crime were set free in the early 1950s.