(1000) Morning all … looks bright out there. (1158)

 

12. Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

Bergen-Belsen or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. [Wiki]

Steve on its liberation:

Was listening to Gilbert King, a gunner with 249 (Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Battery RA, whose unit was the first to enter Bergen-Belsen on this day in 1945. Can’t imagine what he saw – I went there in 1984 when it was a different place altogether. My Dad was there in 1947 when he was posted to a former SS Panzer Barracks in Munsterlager. He just shook his head when I mentioned I’d been there during my time at the Bergen-Hohne Training Area.

Small clarification, the first allied soldiers at Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945 were SAS looking for one of their own. A local had told them a British soldier was being held at the camp and it turned out it was the man they were looking for, SAS Trooper Jenkinson. What they found went up the chain of command and the nearest unit was sent to investigate. That unit was Gilbert King’s the anti-tank battery.

11. Housekeeping

Thu 10 is the first post so far at HQ requiring a page break or “read more” prompt … I plan a few, at intervals, not that often … today’s was just an experiment, as the WP compose system does not offer “read more” in the compose options bar. Eventually I found how it could be done.

The messy part is that it first requires a reader to click on the heading in green, which therefore requires a prompt, in green, below the excerpt … clicking the post heading then takes the reader to the stand-alone post page, which then requires clicking on the “2” below in green to complete reading the article.

It’s messy only for occasionals and stumble-upons … regulars will soon see how it works. Most posts will still operate the regular way … using the “day and number” format, where I manually control the whole-post length, thereby not requiring “read more” breaks.