December 6 (UPI) — German chancellor Angela Merkel made her first visit on Friday in the former nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as the leader of the nation Friday, saying the world must always remain vigilant against anti-semitism.
The German leader stopped at the Wall of Death in Auschwitz of the site, where nazi soldiers executed thousands of soldiers, most of whom were political prisoners in poland. Later, she gave a speech before a monument erected on the site of the gas chambers birkenau, saying that “we must never forget” the Holocaust.
Ms. Merkel has denounced the anti-semitism of holocaust deniers the modern Holocaust, citing the deceased chemist, writer and Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, who said : “It happened, and it can reproduce. “
“We are facing an attack against the fundamental values of liberal democracy, and a historical revisionism is very dangerous and serves as a hostility that is directed against specific groups “, she said. “We focus our attention in particular on anti-semitism, which poses a great threat to jewish life in Germany, in Europe and beyond.
“We need to affirm clearly and unequivocally that we will not tolerate any form of anti-semitism. “