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June 8, 2009

Obama Visits Site of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
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On Friday, President Barack Obama paid tribute to the six million
victims of the Holocaust during a somber visit to the site of the
Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.
He laid a white rose on the “living memorial” on the site where
survivors erected a temporary monument for Buchenwald’s liberation in
April 1945.

President Obama: "To this day, there are those who insist that the
Holocaust never happened, a denial of fact and truth that is baseless
and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such
thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies
about our history. Also to this day, there are those who perpetuate
every form of intolerance, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia,
xenophobia, sexism and more, hatred that degrades its victims and
diminishes us all.”



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