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German President Steinmeier: Germany's Responsibility for the Holocaust Does Not Expire
(Ha'aretz) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Thursday: "Here at Yad Vashem burns the Eternal Flame in remembrance of the victims of the Shoah....Germans deported them. Germans burned numbers on their forearms. Germans tried to dehumanize them, to reduce them to numbers, to erase all memory of them in the extermination camps. They did not succeed." "Those who murdered, those who planned and helped in the murdering, the many who silently toed the line: They were Germans. The industrial mass murder of six million Jews, the worst crime in the history of humanity, it was committed by my countrymen. The terrible war, which cost far more than 50 million lives, it originated from my country....Germany's responsibility does not expire. We want to live up to our responsibility. By this, you should measure us."