German Chancellor Angela Merkel is unveiling a memorial in Berlin to Roma (Gypsy) Nazi Holocaust victims.
The memorial - a circular pool of water with a small plinth in the middle - is in the Tiergarten park, near the Reichstag, the German parliament building.
The unveiling comes after years of delays and disputes over the memorial's design and its cost.
Experts say between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma were killed during World War II.
"It's very important to me that we have a culture of remembrance," Mrs Merkel said in an interview on her YouTube channel.
"Every generation must confront its own history afresh. And for that we must have suitable places that people can go to in the future, when the witnesses from the time are no longer alive."
Mrs Merkel acknowledged that the building of the memorial had taken a long time and entailed "many discussions", and recalled that the memorial to murdered Jews of Europe had also taken more than 15 years to complete.
President Joachim Gauck and some 100 elderly survivors joined Mrs Merkel at the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
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