I want to tell you something very sad that occurred in 1945. When the Allied soldiers finally entered the concentration camps like Dachau and Bergen-Belsen they did not just find prisoners. They found a nightmare.
People were dying every hour of every sickness called typhus. It is a dreadful fever transmitted by the minute lice. To get the few people remaining and to prevent a big plague, the military had to do a cleaning operation. They constructed what they described as human laundries. It is a very cold name for something which should save lives, but it was necessary.
The soldiers needed to confiscate the thin and dirty clothes of the survivors and burn them in large fires as soon as possible because the lice were everywhere. Then, they took the survivors into old stables washing them in warm water and soap. Some of these poor souls had not experienced the warmth of the water on their skin for years. After the bath, medics dusted everyone with white powder called DDT found in pumps to kill the insects.
Saddest part is that many of them were too weak already. Thousands died even after they were released because their bodies were just skin bones. Later, the British army used flamethrowers to set fire to the wooden camp huts to kill the germs to the ground. It was a very hard messy way of starting a new life, but the soldiers did their best to help. It is something which we should never forget these stories.