Survivors and dignitaries have attended a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.

On 11 May 1945, the U.S. Army liberated in the inmates of one of the largest and most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps on German soil during World War II. When the 6th Tank division of Third US Army entered the camp, they found around 21,000 people, including 904 children from a work camp in the city of Weimar, in the camp. Many of them were dangerously emaciated.

An estimated 56,000 people from all over Europe died in the camp between 1937 and 1945. Many of the prisoners were worked to death in horrendous conditions, some were killed in grotesque medical experiments, while others were summarily executed.

An internet site listing 38,000 of the victims went online yesterday. Because the Nazis destroyed many of the camp documents, the names of all the victims have never been recovered.

A monument to Georg Elser, who attempted to assassinate Hitler on 8 November 1939, was unveiled in Königbronn today. Mr Elser planted a bomb in a Munich beer hall but Hitler left early and missed being assassinated by just 13 minutes.

Mr Elser was arrested and sent to Dachau. Shortly before the end of the war, he was murdered on Hitler's orders.