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Weimar (AP) - Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) commemorated the victims of the National Socialist Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar.
The common task of the Democrats is not to surrender the Nazi crimes to oblivion, said Ramelow at a commemoration ceremony for the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps.
«We will not be able to transfer the memory to a museum.
It remains a daily task. "
Buchenwald stands for racial madness, murder and extermination, said Steinmeier.
Concentration camp survivors from the USA, Italy and France, among others, also had their say at the memorial event, which was broadcast on the Internet.
As in previous years, they could not be invited because of the corona pandemic.
The concentration camp on Ettersberg near Weimar was liberated on April 11, 1945 with the help of US forces.
It was built by the National Socialists in 1937.
At the end of World War II, Buchenwald was the largest concentration camp on German soil.
Around 56,000 people were murdered or died there because of starvation and disease or as a result of forced labor.
In the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, around 60,000 prisoners were forced to build rockets in underground tunnels.
At least
20,000 of them died.
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