German authorities have bowed to protests from Nazi victims’ organizations and rescinded previous instructions to tear down the watch-towers at the edge of the former Dachau concentration camp, which is located at a distance of only ten miles from the is Bavarian capital city.
The dilapidated condition of these structures served as official explanation for the demolition order, but among one-time inmates the belief is general that it was mainly motivated by the desire to obliterate all possible traces of the camp and to expunge the memory thereof. The “International Dachau Committee, ” on the other hand, seeks to preserve the remaining installations as a permanent memorial.
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