"I welcome the fact that it has been decided to look for a new location forthe museum," the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, JosefSchuster, told Berlin's Tagesspiegel daily. SEE ALSO: Sausage museum plan at former concentration camp sparks outrage in GermanyRikola-Gunnar Lüttgenau of the Buchenwald memorial foundation had said the redevelopment plan showed a "lack of sensitivity" and of "historicalawareness". The museum apologized on its website for the earlier announcement to build a tourist attraction on a site linked to "this dark chapter of German history". The Mühlhausen site in Thuringia state was once part of the Buchenwaldcamp, where the Nazis imprisoned almost a quarter of a million people between 1937 and 1945. Thousands of Jews were among the dead, but also Roma and politicalopponents of the Nazis, gays and Soviet prisoners of war.

Source: The Local February 05, 2019 12:22 UTC