A stone shaft honoring the memory of victims of the Nazis was dedicated at the site of the former Neuen Gamme concentration camp, near here, at a ceremony attended by representatives of the Jewish community, Britain, France, Denmark and Norway. Although all German democratic parties were invited to send representatives to the ceremony only the Social Democratic and the Christian Democratic parties accepted the invitation.
The shaft, 23 feet high, is reminiscent in shape of a crematorium chimney. Some 30,000 to 40, 000 persons, mostly Jews, were killed and cremated at the camp by the Nazis. The shaft stands on the site where the Nazis dumped the ashes of their victims.
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