"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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“Shielded, what sorts of life are stirring yet:
Legs lagged like drains, slippers soft as fungus,
The gas and grate, the old cold sour grey bed.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)