 Several students later talked of their experiences at Belsen.On the bulldozing of bodies into mass graves, John Dixey later recounted;
It wasn't as totally horrifying as you might reasonably expect it to be because it was on such an enormous scale...If it had been several hundred bodies one might have been desperately upset and affected by it mentally and psychologically, at any rate.But no it was on such a huge scale it was rather like trying to count the stars.