Obama Visits Buchenwald

June 5. 2009

President Barack Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and place a rose as a memorial to the Jewish people that lost their lives at the heinous facility during Hitler's terrible reign.

"President Barack Obama, second right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, listen to Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz" - AP

At death camp, Obama says evil must be confronted

WEIMAR, Germany (AP) — President Barack Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and said the leaders of today must not rest against the spread of evil.

The president called the camp where an estimated 56,000 people died the "ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers and skeptics. And he bluntly challenged one of them, Iranian President Ahmadinejad, to visit Buchenwald.

"These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time," Obama said after seeing crematory ovens, barbed-wire fences, guard towers and the clock set at 3:15, marking the camp's liberation in the afternoon of April 11, 1945. "More than half a century later, our grief and our outrage over what happened have not diminished."

Buchenwald "teaches us that we must be ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem, and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests," Obama said...

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