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On Friday, the final day of their visit to Germany, British Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visited the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, which British troops liberated 70 years ago.

The camp, where some 200,000 people were estimated to be exported and around 52,000 died, and which German President Joachim Gauck has called "a place of horror" and "an abyss" in the heart of his country, is now a place of remembrance in Germany.

Queen Elizabeth II said her presence underlined the complete reconciliation that has taken place between Britain and Germany.