Loose connections? British and the 'Final Solution'

Collective memory in Britain associated with the war tended to ignore the Holocaust, although there were exceptions, most notably the liberation by British troops of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp - however the detail that most of its victims were Jewish was downplayed or ignored. More recently, as the Holocaust has become recognised as one of the defining events of the twentieth century, greater efforts have been made to connect the British war effort and experience to that of the persecuted Jews