The Communist government of East Germany has decided to tear down all the buildings in the Buchenwald concentration camp, where the Nazis tortured more than 100,000 inmates to death, and to cover the area Start in the spring.
A memorial to the victims of the Nazis was dedicated at the town of Reutlingen, in Southern Germany, yesterday. During the last few years of the war some 120 concentration camp inmates most of them Jews, were shipped to the town, and were murdered and cremated at the local crematorium.
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