A memorial to the many thousands of Jews who were murdered at the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was unveiled today at Belsen on the site of the former Nazi camp. Representatives of Jewish organizations and the German Government, including West German President Theodor Heuss and Jewish Agency co-chairman Dr. Nahum Goldmann, attended the ceremony.
Dr. Heuss declared that the Germans must “recognize the full cruelty of what happened” at the camp. Insisting that the German people know of the “shameful crimes which occurred at Belsen,” the President said, “they were a degradation and shame to Germany. No one can take this shame away from us.”
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