Wednesday, August 21, 2013
When a hard ass like Merkel is worried
You have to wonder what kind of threat the extreme right is in Europe.
Angela Merkel became the first German chancellor to visit the World War II Nazi death camp Dachau on Tuesday, as part of her campaign to warn about the threat posed by the extreme right in Europe.Amen to that. If only we could say the same in this country.
She placed a wreath at the camp's memorial before visiting its museum and meeting with survivors.
"This is a significant moment for me," Merkel said. "The memory of these events fill me with deep sadness and shame."
She was accompanied by 93-year-old Max Mannheimer, a survivor of Dachau and president of the committee of former prisoners who had invited her to tour the site located about 10 miles from the southern city of Munich.
Merkel's visit to Dachau comes as she campaigns for a third term in office ahead of Sept. 22 elections.
The German leader earlier said that Europe must remain ever vigilant to the threat posed by the extreme right and urged people to show more courage in the fight against neo-Nazi movements.
"It is and remains incomprehensible what happened at the concentration camps," said Merkel, the country's first chancellor born after World War II, ahead of the visit. "We must never allow such ideas to have a place in our democratic Europe."
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