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Modified: 1995/04/10 Hitler's forgotten victims to be remembered
at Buchenwald By Richard Murphy BUCHENWALD, Germany, April 3
(Reuter) - Half a million gypsies murdered by Nazi Germany, long
neglected by history, will receive belated recognition this
month when a memorial in their honour is unveiled at the former
Buchenwald death camp. The bleak hillside camp on the outskirts
of Weimar also hopes to lay to rest other lingering historical
controversies when it commemorates the 50th anniversary of its
liberation at ceremonies on April 8 and 9. A new museum will pay
tribute to all the estimated 51,000 people who died in
Buchenwald, not just the communists singled out for
glorification by the regime that ruled former East Germany until
1989. It will also acknowledge another fact hushed up under
communism -- that for five years after World War Two, Buchenwald
remained in use as an internment camp run by Soviet occupation
forces. Around 10,000 inmates,