BERLIN, April 19 (UPI) -- Germany over the weekend remembered the 65th anniversary of the liberation of three Nazi concentration camps.
Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrueck outside Berlin as well as Bergen-Belsen in Lower Saxony were liberated by Allied forces in mid-April.
German Education Minister Anette Schavan on Sunday addressed a crowd of nearly 1,000 in Ravensbrueck, a concentration camp for women an hour's drive north of Berlin.
"Whoever wants to comprehend the suffering reaches the limits of human powers of imagination," Schavan said.
Similar events were at Sachsenhausen, just outside Berlin, and in Bergen Belsen near Celle.
An estimated 100,000 people died at Bergen-Belsen, which Germany's Culture Minister Bernd Neumann called "a hell on earth," and one of the "sources of German guilt."
British forces liberated the camp on April 15, 1945.
The BBC's Richard Dimbleby, who accompanied the troops, described the scenes that day as following:
"Here over an acre of ground lay dead and dying people. You could not see which was which … A mother, driven mad, screamed at a British sentry to give her milk for her child, and thrust the tiny mite into his arms, then ran off, crying terribly. He opened the bundle and found the baby had been dead for days."