Video: Obama Visits Buchenwald and Rebukes Holocaust Deniers

Barack Obama continued his stunning diplomatic travels and statements today by visiting the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

The president brings increasing strength and credibility to our country and to its foreign policy as he speaks out with a forceful voice of truth and morality.

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Obama at Buchenwald: a ‘rebuke’ to deniers

BERLIN (JTA) -- President Barack Obama visited the Buchenwald concentration camp site, calling it "the ultimate rebuke" to Holocaust deniers.

Obama joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust memoirist who was a Buchenwald inmate, on the tour on Friday, a day after Obama called on the Muslim world to reject Holocaust denial.

"To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened," Obama said at a news conference at the gates of the camp. Such statements are "ignorant, baseless and hateful."

For more than an hour, Obama and Merkel walked the grounds of Buchenwald. Out of sight of cameras, they entered the crematorium building where camp victims were turned to ash. They placed white roses, a symbol of German resistance, at several sites...