Survivors Remember Horrors on Buchenwald Anniversary

World | April 11, 2005, Monday // 00:00
Survivors Remember Horrors on Buchenwald Anniversary Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp joined German leaders to mark the camp's liberation by US troops 60 years ago. Elderly survivors urged all Europeans to never forget what happened there. Photo by www.gsu.edu

Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp joined German leaders to mark the camp's liberation by US troops 60 years ago. The world must never allow the horrors of the Nazis to fade from memory, said German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Elderly survivors urged all Europeans to never forget what happened there. Some 240,000 prisoners passed through the camp just outside the city of Weimar between 1937 and 1945. About 56,000 died, many worked to death by the Nazis.

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