Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Withdrawal of German troops after the agreement regarding the transfer of Bergen-Belsen to the Allied 21st Army Group had been signed. Subsequently the 11th Armoured Division (The Black Bull) took over the camp. 55,000 inmates - many suffering from typhus and dysentry - were found. More than 10,000 former prisoners died after liberation. Holocaust. Germany. 15th April 1945