At Smolensk today Germans returned to the graveyard where the last German soldiers killed in the former Soviet Union were buried.
The German Defence Minister addressed the gathering and spoke about the importance of peace in Europe and Germany's close relation with its eastern neighbours.
Nazi Germany lost two million soldiers on the Russian front while 20 million soldiers of the Red Army lost their lives.
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