More than four hundred former French deportees and relatives of persons who never returned from the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald left here this week-end in a special train for Germany where they will attend ceremonies tomorrow marking the tenth anniversary of the liberation of the camp.
Still another group of about the same number left Strasbourg for Buchenwald this week-end. All in all, several thousand persons are expected to attend the Buchenwald memorial ceremony.
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