This is an important story to be READ by everyone, to remember that there was a HOLOCAUST in the former Nazi republic, and that detractor's and liers should be made to understand what happened during World War II.
Therefore I was very pleased that Leaders of the city of Weimar, a cradle of German culture and democracy, vowed Saturday to fight racism and far-right extremism as part of ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of the opening of the nearby Buchenwald concentration camp.
As part of ceremonies at the camp, where some 56,000 people perished behind its barbed wire fences or in incoming transports, Weimar city council members and survivors signed a statement pledging to honor victims' memories by fighting extremism.
We are aware of our responsibility to keep the memory alive and pass it down from one generation to the next, the statement says.
The Weimar's history is inextricably linked to the establishment of Germany's first democratic republic there and several cultural giants whom it nurtured, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, but during World War II its name was tarnished due to its proximity to the Nazi camp.
The Formal ceremonies are to be held at the camp on Sunday, where archivists plan to hand survivors of the camp a memorial book listing, as completely as possible, all those who died at Buchenwald. The book, which contains some 38,000 names is the result of years of painstaking research.
BUCHENWALD
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