France plans to build a memorial at the site of the only Nazi concentration camp on French soil. Tens of thousands of Resistance fighters were killed at Struthof. According to France’s secretary of veterans affairs, Jacques Floch, Struthof also was where the Nazis built and tested one of their first gas chambers on 87 Jews.
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