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Germany and the world commemorated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau on 27 January, remembering the concentration camp in which “more than one million men, women and children, mostly Jews, were murdered […] from all over Europe” by the Nazi regime, writes Die Welt.
Even if German president Joachim Gauck did not name the anti-islam movement Pegida, the conservative daily reports that he launched an appeal to “protect solidarity and the rights of every fellow human being”. But Gauck also had a message for Europe and the world, the daily reports —
Citing the dramatic situation in Syria and in parts of Irak, Gauck repeated what he first openly said at the security conference in Munich: the demand that Germany should be more determined in supporting solutions in international conflicts – if necessary also by military means.
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Gauck, Die Welt finally notes, acknowledged the Soviet liberation of Auschwitz, paraphrasing the president in saying that “the political and diplomatic hurdles that made a visit from Russia and Vladimir Putin impossible, should not hinder the acknowledgment of the Russian people.”
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