German Soldiers Visit Auschwitz
<i> Associated Press</i>
AUSCHWITZ, Poland —
The first uniformed Germans to visit the Auschwitz death camp in 50 years paid an emotional homage to the past on Sunday in a ceremony that also symbolized hopes for the future of united Europe.
Some of the 60 soldiers and 35 officers of the Bundeswehr, the German army, were in tears as they toured the barracks that housed 1.5 million people killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II, including more than 1 million Jews.
Soldiers laid a wreath of red flowers.
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