Yesterday:
“Here in Buchenwald I would like to highlight an obligation placed on us Germans as a consequence of our past: to stand up for human rights, to stand up for rule of law, and for democracy. We shall fight against terror, extremism, and anti-Semitism. And in the awareness of our responsibility we shall strive for peace and freedom, together with our friends and partners in the United States and all over the world.”
Angela Merkel
“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.”
Barack Obama
“Will the world ever learn? I think that is why Buchenwald is so important -- as important, of course, but differently as Auschwitz. It's important because here the large -- the big camp was a kind of international community. People came there from all horizons -- political, economic, culture. The first globalization essay, experiment, were made in Buchenwald. And all that was meant to diminish the humanity of human beings.”
Elie Wiesel
Business or pleasure?
"I have no patience for people who would deny history.”
Textiles, paper, electrical equipment: Dachau
Bavaria, an easy drive from Munich. Chemicals
And metal goods: Oswiecim, west of Krakov
Twinned with Kerpen. For less hustle bustle:
(To each his own) a beech forest by Weimar.
Also available: Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor and
More. Trip of a lifetime. Facilities for children.
V.O.
