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thomas sparrow there in auschwitz well we can talk more about this now with g.w. political correspondent emmanuel shaz good to see your money where you know many people are asking why it took medical so long to visit in an official capacity i mean she's been transferred for 14 years and this was her 1st visit to auschwitz and in fact it has been even 24 years seems chancellor a german chancellor visited. it so it was long and a long overdue visit thank america is no stranger to such ceremonies though she visited a concentration camp in germany of how. i haven't spoke so federer a president of germany a fine by the time i was in poland for to come immigrations of the beginning of world war 2 earlier on. in september but is sure that this visit was long overdue it comes at a time where the. fund asian is celebrating its 10th anniversary and i go america came with that announcement that a german government will give the get will a gift a 60 more 1000000 euros for different nations so long overdue a visit but at last disciplines so that was one facet at least of that

helena: thomas sparrow in auschwitz.e can talk about this now with the demo political correspondent. good to seo. many people are asking why it took merkel so long to visit in an official capacity. she has been chancellor for 14 years and this was her first visit to auschwitz. >> in fact it has been 24 years since a german chancellor visited auschwitz. so it was long overdue. angela merkel is no stranger to such ceremonies. she visited concentration camps in germany of dachau, buchenwald, also the federal presidents of germany was in poland for the commemoration of the beginning of world war ii earlier this year, in september. but it is true that this visit was long overdue. it comes at a time where the auschwitz memorial foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary. and angela merkel came with that announcement that the german government will give 60 million euros for the foundation. so a long overdue visit but i last this happened. helena: that was one facet of the visit. but it also comes at a time when anti-semitis

the memorial site can continue and the horrors of the holocaust can be viewed up close the w's thomas sparrow is at the office memorial will make a 1st visit as german chancellor thomas merkel is visiting a side where germany committed horrific crimes how will the town protests this visit. the chancellor will shortly arrive here in our streets birkenau where she will go through the infamous kate that you can probably see behind me she will also hold a minute of silence not far away from here and later on today she will be giving a speech alongside for example poland's prime minister not there was one of the at ski one of the survivors of the comp here as well as other personalities as such and as you said there is anger merkel's 1st visit as german chancellor here in in auschwitz birkenau in fact she's only the 3rd german chancellor to have visited this site at all. as you said to have 1st visit to auschwitz but she's been in office for 14 years why the visit now they have been questions us through why i'm going to michael waited for 14 years to come to this place which is so important for ge

correspondent thomas sparrow was at the memorial ceremony and he sent us his impressions of the chance of a speech. this was on clinical 1st visit to auschwitz birkenau since she became chancellor 14 years ago it was also the 1st time that a german chancellor visits this site in nearly 25 years this explains why i'm going to merkel's visit was described as one of historic dimensions i'm going to gave a speech today in which she stressed germany's guilt germany's historic responsibility and how that responsibility is a very important part of germany's identity as a nation but she also stressed the lessons that can be drawn from the past in particular lessons for today's context and that context today in germany and europe is marked by a rise in 97 it isn't. well hans christian yosh joins me now and he is the director of the house of the vans a conference that's a memorial site for the prosecution of european and jews welcome thank you very much for coming in to discuss this important issue we are dealing with iraq as of anti-semitism in germany as well as in europe has something going t

now watching those ceremonies with me was the john barrick and in the studio as well as thomas sparrow who is at the site in auschwitz let me start with you 1st john what were your initial impressions of these memorial ceremony as vent the tickly investments to chancellor thompson lamech i had to say when i was most moved i suppose like most people by mr butler cops is words. extraordinary i was working out trying to do the arithmetic there and working out that he must be i think 88 to 89 years old an extraordinary strength an extraordinary by teletype for a man of that age and you know it's one of things i was a few years ago in auschwitz myself. for a commemoration ceremony and had the privilege of meeting a number of survivors and i was astonished i shouldn't have been but i was astonished at the strength of all these people that something under the magical mention but of course when one realizes people who survived this enormities they must have been extraordinary people who survived and i think that is something that obviously touched on the americans he referred to it specificall

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