European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Judy Sarasohn staff writer forty years the armed forces of the United the soviet Canada and France moved across German occupied Europe and began freeing people who had experienced such horror in nazi concentration Camps that it is still difficult to millions were shot and worked to they were there were unspeakable although jews were the primary political priests and homosexuals also were tortured and inmates came from Belgium and of the 4 million jews shipped to the Only 2 percent survived to see the allies come through the a total of about 6 million jews were murdered by the there were 20 Large concentration Camp complexes with 165 satellite Camps and hundreds of slave labor Camps and transit centers in nazi occupied such As Treblinka and were annihilation centers where victims were murdered systematically in Gas at people died from disease and according to the Center of military troops involved in the liberation of the major concentration Camps came from the 4th army div Ohr drug and 6th army div 3rd army div 10th army div and 103rd inf div Lith army div 42nd inf 45th inf 80th inf div and 90th inf div Only the 3rd army div remains although the Camps first started to fall in most were freed in survivors and liberators Are holding memorial services this year marking the 40th anniversary of the the major West German sponsored by the Central Council of jews in will be at 11 sunday at the Bergen Belsen concentration Camp German Chancellor Helmut Kohl will speak at the also participating Are representatives of the jewish Bergen Belsen survivors and the British forces that liberated the the military rabbis from Ramstein a and Stuttgart will also conduct a memorial service a 2 sunday at the German synagogue in chaplain army Philip the Heidelberg Community said sunday was chosen partly because of its proximity to the Holiday season of which ended last passover Marks the liberation of jews from Silverstein said jewish rituals commemorating the holocaust Are developing around the passover which traditionally has stated that in every generation there arise those who seek to destroy another major memorial sponsored by the International committee for will be at april at the Dachau Camp memorial near Dachau was liberated april by american army officials said there Are no plans for army participation in memorial services in concentration the liberation an Observance was to be held thursday at the Capitol Rotunda in Washington during which the army was to present the unit flags of american units involved in the liberation to the holocaust memorial president Reagan has reversed an earlier decision not to visit a concentration Camp when he visits Germany next but which one he will go to is not reagans earlier plan not to visit a Camp to Honor the victims of nazism but to visit a Pitburg cemetery where German soldiers Are buried was criticized by jewish and american veterans Reagan had said he wanted to stress postwar Unity and a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center of los Angeles will Mark the 40th anniversary of the end of the War and the liberation of the Camps May 6 at one of the last exhibits at the Dachau memorial is a quote from american philosopher George Santayana those who cannot remember the past Are condemned to repeat following Are some remembrances of the concentration Camps from survivors and army photo some of the thousands of former prisoners at Dachau cheer after their april 1985 the stars and stripes Page i