World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Market at Nazi Camp Site Is Given Up
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Authorities and a food chain agreed to scrap a nearly completed supermarket on the edge of the former Nazi concentration camp of Ravensbrueck after protests from Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors. Brandenburg Premier Manfred Stolpe said his state government will provide an alternative site for the store. From 40,000 to 90,000 prisoners from 20 European states died during World War II from forced labor, starvation, medical experiments and executions at the Ravensbrueck camp.
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