In early April 1945 a small British ambulance unit was diverted from frontline battle in northern Germany, to handle an unfolding medical crisis behind enemy lines. A local prison camp had suffered an outbreak of typhus. That prison camp was Bergen-Belsen. The British had no idea of the true scale of this humanitarian catastrophe nor of what it would come to represent.
Katrine Bach
as Lotti Burns
Simon Paisley Day
as Major Stadler
Oliver Ford Davies
as Martin Lipscomb
Iain Glen
as James Johnston
Corin Redgrave
as Glyn Hughes
Jemma Redgrave
as Jean McFarlane
Tobias Menzies
as Derrick Sington
