When it comes to humanity’s darkest moments, time is both a blessing and a curse. Firebombed cities get rebuilt.
Obama at Buchenwald: A Message to Those Who Forget, or Deny
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Buchenwald survivors see Obama as family
A long narrow road winds through a thick forest up a hilled called the "Ettesberg," on the outskirts of Weimar in central Germany. The road goes on for miles through the forest, but every once in a while you see an old railway station, a tower, or an old structure withering in the German rain. This road was named “the trail of blood,” by inmates of the infamous concentration camp Buchenwald, because of the death marches they were forces to undertake as they were deported to work as slave laborers for Nazi Germany’s defense industry from 1937 to 1945.
Obama to address Muslim relations in Egypt speech
President Obama will deliver a speech June 4 in Egypt on America’s relationship with the Muslim world, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced Friday. Egypt is “a country that in many ways represents the heart of the Arab world,” Gibbs said.