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REMEMBRANCE: President Obama takes a moment of silence at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on Friday en route to Saturday's ceremonies in Normandy, France, for the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landing.DRESDEN, Germany | President Obama on Friday used visits to some of the grimmest landmarks of World War II to call for strengthened international cooperation, declaring that the "horror" of the Buchenwald concentration camp was the "ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers.
The emotional visits to a castle and church fire-bombed by the United States 64 years ago and to the now-bucolic spot where thousands perished in a Nazi death camp gave Mr. Obama an opportunity to renew his call for Middle East peace.
Flanked by famed Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr. Obama decried all "intolerance" — from anti-Semitism and racism to homophobia and sexism.
"These sites have not lost their horror in the passage of time," Mr. Obama said under gray skies in Buchenwald. "Our grief and our outrage over what happened have not diminished. I will not forget what I've seen here today."
Aides said the visit to the death camp built on the message at the heart of Mr. Obama's speech Thursday in Cairo to the Muslim world — where he also denounced Holocaust deniers.
National Security Adviser James L. Jones told reporters that World War II and the liberation of the camps "still serve as a beacon of reminder and warning to us all."
Mr. Obama is the first American president to visit the camp. Former President George W. Bush visited Auschwitz in May 2003.
The Anti-Defamation League, a group dedicated to combating anti-Semitism, said in a statement Friday that Mr. Obama's visit to Germany sent a "powerful message about the importance of remembrance, about the commitment to stand against evil and to fight against genocide wherever it appears."
At Buchenwald, Mr. Obama said those who pretend the genocide didn't happen offer "a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful."
The president praised Mrs. Merkel for taking part in the ceremony, noting, "It's not easy to look into the past in this way."
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