Youths from across Europe are clearing the site of a long-neglected Nazi concentration camp. The Elrich camp, which held an estimated maximum of 8,000, sat for decades on no-man’s-land between the border separating East and West Germany. Many of the camp’s inmates were worked to death digging tunnels for the Nazi’s rocket program.
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