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given the first opportunity to visit the
concentration camp, where several thousand
Scandinavian prisoners had already been assembled by
the Swedish Red Cross.
The Third Reich was now not merely
crumbling: it was about to collapse. In the west the
British and the Americans had already crossed
the Rhine and were advancing on Osnabrück. In
the east the Russians were pressing forward; they
were to enter the suburbs of Vienna a few days
later, simultaneously with the sensational Allied
advance towards Bremen-Verden. On April 10th
Königsberg and Vienna were taken by the
Russians. The goal was Berlin.
We drove up to the entrance of Neuengamme,
where the gates were opened for us and closed as
soon as we were inside. I was the first
representative of a neutral humanitarian organization to visit
a concentration camp, for when our people had
collected prisoners from the various camps they
had not been allowed to enter; instead, the
prisoners had been assembled outside the gates, where
the motor coaches and ambulances were waiting.
It was with feelings of great emotion that I
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