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Article: Tens of thousands died in Buchenwald, one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps, and it is right for President Obama, or indeed anyone, to go there in commemoration.(The Week)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2009
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Tens of thousands died in Buchenwald, one of the most infamous Nazi concentration camps, and it is right for President Obama, or indeed anyone, to go there in commemoration. But it is not all right for anyone in an official or representative position like the president's to visit Dresden during the same trip and for the same purpose. In February 1945, Stalin asked for a large-scale air raid on Dresden and its railheads, to relieve the pressures on the Red Army held up in Hungary. The Dresden firestorm followed. ...