Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation

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Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation  Former German President Christian Wulff attended the commemoration event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/07/ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp was commemorated

00:07with a ceremony in the German city of Weimar.

00:10It was attended by the country's former president, Christian Wulff.

00:13In a speech at the event, he warned against radicalization and a worldwide shift to the

00:18right.

00:19I can now more clearly imagine how that could have happened back then, and that makes me

00:33stunned.

00:34That is frightening to me, so I think it is necessary that today's generations strengthen

00:43their commitment to our values, to act with courage and perseverance, so as not to let

00:53the demons of the 19th and 20th centuries return.

00:59Wulff also criticized the rise of anti-immigration sentiment, championed by the far-right Alternative

01:05for Germany party.

01:06The former president, who belongs to the Christian Democratic Union, called for active commitment

01:11to democracy and the preservation of humanity.

01:14The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937.

01:18At its peak, the camp and its satellites housed close to 300,000 inmates.

01:23More than 55,000 of its prisoners were killed by Nazis or died as a result of hunger, illness

01:29or medical experiments.

01:31The camp was liberated on the 11th of April 1945.

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