WORLD IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Slave Labor Death Mines to Stay Idle
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Bowing to protests by victims of Nazism, a German company has agreed not to mine gypsum from an underground labyrinth where Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich worked 20,000 slave laborers to death, officials said in Berlin. The mining concern will avoid disturbing the 47 interlaced tunnels of the former Dora concentration camp which still contain stacked rows of slatted beds and other harrowing reminders of Nazi atrocity. The shafts will remain preserved in their entirety, a local official declared.
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