WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson for the modern world is vigilance against evil, against subjugation of the weak and against the "cruelty in ourselves.”
Obama honored the 56,000 who died at the Nazi camp and the thousands who survived. He invoked, too, his great-uncle, who helped liberate a Buchenwald satellite prison in 1945 and came back a haunted man.
"More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage over what happened have not diminished,” Obama said after witnessing the crematory ovens, barbed-wire fences and guard towers.
Obama challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, to visit, too.
"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened,” Obama said. "This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts.”
by the associated press
Obama honored the 56,000 who died at the Nazi camp and the thousands who survived. He invoked, too, his great-uncle, who helped liberate a Buchenwald satellite prison in 1945 and came back a haunted man.
"More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage over what happened have not diminished,” Obama said after witnessing the crematory ovens, barbed-wire fences and guard towers.
Obama challenged Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, to visit, too.
"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened,” Obama said. "This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts.”
by the associated press
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