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Obama Visits Buchenwald

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(Newser) – President Obama toured the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald today, the BBC reports. “These sites have not lost their horror with the passage of time,” said Obama, accompanied on his visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Obama noted that his great-uncle, part of the infantry division that liberated the camp, "had a very difficult time re-adjusting to civilian life" afterward.

President Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, walk away from the gate building at the Buchenwald concentration camp today.
President Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, walk away from the gate building at the Buchenwald concentration camp today.   (AP Photo/Oliver Multhaup)
President Obama and Angela Merkel listen to Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, today.
President Obama and Angela Merkel listen to Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, today.   (AP Photo/Kai Pfaffenbach,Pool)
Obama, Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, walk to the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, today.
Obama, Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel, right, and Bertrand Herz, left, walk to the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, today.   (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
President Obama puts down a rose in front of the gate building at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009.
President Obama puts down a rose in front of the gate building at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009.   (AP Photo/Oliver Multhaup)
Four white roses, laid by President Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, are seen on a commemoration plate at the Buchenwald camp.
Four white roses, laid by President Obama, German chancellor Angela Merkel, and Buchenwald survivors Elie Wiesel and Bertrand Herz, are seen on a commemoration plate at the Buchenwald camp.   (AP Photo/Oliver Multhaup, POOL)
US President Barack Obama puts down a rose at the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) memorial side, inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009.
US President Barack Obama puts down a rose at the 'Kleines Lager' (Little Camp) memorial side, inside Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009.   (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
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anchower
Jun 5, 09 3:56 PM CDT
Just once I would like to see the Israeli prime minister pay his respects at a memorial to victims of the Rwandan genocide, or of slavery, neoslavery, and Jim Crow in the United States. Reply
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TerrifiedCitizen
Jun 5, 09 4:27 PM CDT
Seeing these concentrations camps hasn't impeded the DHS from pouring huge amounts of their budgets into restoring or building civilian "work camps" on many of our existing military bases here in the U.S. If concentration camps are viewed so poorly by our president, who do you suppose these domestic camps are intended for? Reply
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Fondue
Jun 5, 09 5:15 PM CDT
Where do you get this crap from? Or do you just make it up? If you can point to a DHS report that states this, I'll take it back. Please provide a [dot]gov, or report title.
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SPH
Jun 6, 09 11:45 PM CDT
Sounds like BS to me....
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