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Survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp mark liberation by the US Army

`INSANE CRUELTY' Sixty years ago, US tanks crashed through the camp's perimeter; some former prisoners gathered to remember the atrocity that left 56,000 dead

AP , WEIMAR, GERMANY

The Americans brought Weimar residents to the site to see what happened just 8km from their town.

"They were very stoic, very unemotional," Hontas recalled. "I remember only one woman dabbing her eyes."

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