• "Belsen Was a Gas" is a song by the English punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The song is about one of the Nazi concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Bergen-Belsen...
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    Bergen-Belsen (pronounced [ˈbɛʁɡn̩ˌbɛlsn̩]), or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the...
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    December 1945) was a Hauptsturmführer and the Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (from 8 May 1944 to 25 November 1944) and of the Bergen-Belsen concentration...
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  • that being "Belsen Was a Gas", originally a Sex Pistols song that Vicious regularly performed and the only known Sex Pistols song that has a solo version...
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  • controversial song "Belsen Was a Gas", about the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, was written for this band by Vicious and Levene. It was performed live...
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  • performance of "Belsen Was a Gas". The box set includes almost the entire known recorded output of the band while Johnny Rotten was in the band. A few demos...
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    Irma Grese (redirect from Bitch of belsen)
    1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was a volunteer...
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    The Belsen trials were a series of several trials that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany...
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  • York Dolls. They also performed the controversial Sex Pistols song "Belsen Was a Gas". Other songs performed by the band during their concert included “Chatterbox”...
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  • "Silly Thing" (1978) Ronnie Biggs – lead vocals on "No One Is Innocent", "Belsen Vos a Gassa" (1978) Malcolm McLaren – lead vocals on "You Need Hands" (1979)...
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    Sex Pistols (category A&M Records artists)
    Roll Swindle: Ronnie Biggs – lead vocals on "No One Is Innocent", "Belsen Was a Gas" Edward Tudor-Pole – lead vocals on "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle"...
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  • may have appeared a little out of tune. We also recorded 'Belsen Was A Gas', which I must say I wasn't too happy about, and I was relieved that it didn't...
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  • a thing as 'morals' either. Because it's immoral to bring a kid in this world and not give a toss about it.'" Along with the later "Belsen Was a Gas,"...
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    tracks for "No One is Innocent" (a.k.a. "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)"/"Cosh The Driver") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve...
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    Elisabeth Volkenrath (category Belsen trial executions)
    Bergen-Belsen when Auschwitz was closed. From February 1945, she was Oberaufseherin (supervising wardress) at Bergen-Belsen. In April 1945, Volkenrath was arrested...
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    (aka "The Biggest Blow (A Punk Prayer)") and "Belsen Was a Gas" were recorded with guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook at a studio in Brazil shortly...
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  • film on US home video in 1992. In 2005, the film was released on DVD by Shout Factory. "Belsen Was a Gas" Great Reality TV Swindle The Great Rock 'n' Roll...
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  • for 'NMTB', most notably the studio demo of "Belsen Was A Gas", which had been recently rediscovered and was previously thought lost forever. The third...
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  • Be Me" - 3:20 "Seventeen" - 2:08 "New York" - 3:30 "E.M.I." - 3:19 "Belsen Was a Gas" - 2:10 "Bodies" - 3:28 "Holidays in the Sun" - 4:07 "Liar" - 3:00...
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    November 8, 1918 in Plauen) was a German prisoner and later a German camp guard in both Auschwitz-Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. She was known most infamously...
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  • Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Tribute is a tribute album to the punk rock band the Sex Pistols. Schulte, Tom. Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's...
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  • a Chance" (Jerry Nolan, Walter Lure) "Stepping Stone" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) "My Way" (Jacques Revaux, Claude François, Paul Anka) "Belsen Was a Gas"...
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    Franz Hössler (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp personnel)
    December 1945) was a Nazi German SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration...
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  • (live) "Somethin' Else" (live) "Tight Pants" (live) "No Lip" (live) "Belsen Was a Gas" (live) "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone" (live) "My Way" (alternate...
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    gas vans. Chełmno (German: Kulmhof) was a testing ground for the establishment of faster methods of murdering and incinerating bodies. It was not a part...
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  • "C'mon Everybody" "Stepping Stone" "No Lip" "I Wanna Be Your Dog" "Belsen Was a Gas" "Chatterbox" "Tight Pants" "My Way" "Search and Destroy" "My Way"...
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    Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (category Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors)
    Auschwitz slowly started getting evacuated. Anita was taken on a train with 3,000 others to Bergen-Belsen and survived for six months with almost nothing...
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    Anne Frank (category Dutch people who died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp)
    were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they died (presumably of typhus) a few months later. They were estimated by...
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    Fritz Klein (category Belsen trial executions)
    1945) was a Romanian-German Nazi doctor and war criminal, hanged for his role in atrocities at Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen concentration...
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    described collectively as "victims of Fascism". It was when the Western Allies arrived in Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau in April 1945 that the liberation...
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