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World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Scuffle Breaks Out at Death Camp Site

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Residents and protesters traded shouts and fists over whether a supermarket should be built on the grounds of a former Nazi concentration camp in the city of Fuerstenberg, about 60 miles north of Berlin. The Nazis used it to intern women and children. In an attempt to cool passions, Manfred Stolpe, governor of eastern Germany’s Brandenburg state, visited the site of the Ravensbrueck camp. Fuerstenberg has allowed the western German Tengelmann store group to begin building a Kaiser supermarket on the grounds of the camp. Tengelmann said it is willing to drop the project but that investors must give their approval.

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