USA - Obama: Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald
US President Barack Obama became on Friday the first American president to visit the Buchenwald concentration camp, where an estimated 56,000 people, including some 11,000 Jews, perished there at the hands of Nazis.
Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a nearby satellite camp, Ohrdruf, in early April 1945 just days before other US Army units overran Buchenwald.
"In his own speech at the site, Obama asserted that he would never forget what he had seen at the camp and said that said "It is up to us to resist injustice, indifference intolerance in whichever forms they make take, in order to ensure those that died here did not die in vain."
"To this day, there are those who insist the Holocaust never happened," Obama said. "This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts, a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history."
"This place teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time," Obama added.
'Ahmadinejad should visit Buchenwald'
The statements were pointed at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has expressed doubts that 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and who has urged that Israel be wiped from the map.
Source: http://www.ynet.co.il/
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