"Belsen Was a Gas" is a highly controversial song by the British punk rock band the Sex Pistols. The song is about one of the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, Bergen-Belsen, which was liberated by British troops in 1945, and was consequently better known in Britain than similar camps in Eastern Europe. (Belsen is also mentioned in their song "Holidays in the Sun".)
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“... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)