At Nazi camp, Obama sees the capacity for evil and a need to confront it in the modern worldWEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama absorbed the stark horrors memorialized at the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday and said the lesson for the modern world is vigilance against evil, against subjugation of the weak and against the “cruelty in ourselves.” Obama says drive for peace in Mideast can make ’serious progress this year’DRESDEN, Germany — Trying to defy decades of disappointment in the Middle East, President Barack Obama raised hopes Friday for “serious progress this year” in the elusive search for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Obama arrives in Paris after visit to concentration camp in GermanyPARIS — President Barack Obama has arrived in Paris after meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany and touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, where tens of thousands of Jews perished during the Holocaust Obama arrives in Paris for D-Day commemorations, reunion with wife and daughtersPARIS — President Barack Obama has arrived in Paris. Obama visits Holocaust site, calls for redoubling efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peaceWEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama witnessed the Nazi ovens of the Buchenwald concentration camp Friday, its clock tower frozen at the time of liberation, and said the leaders of today must not rest against the spread of evil. Obama visits Nazi camp Buchenwald, calls it ‘ultimate rebuke’ to Holocaust deniersWEIMAR — President Barack Obama says the Buchenwald concentration camp “is the ultimate rebuke” to those who deny the Holocaust. Facts about the former Buchenwald concentration campWEIMAR, Germany — Some details about the Buchenwald concentration camp that President Barack Obama visited Friday. The president’s great-uncle, Charlie Payne, helped liberate the nearby Ohrdurf subcamp in 1945. Obama calls for redoubling efforts for Israeli-Palestinian peace, says ‘the moment is now’WEIMAR, Germany — President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation’s post-Holocaust creation. AP News in BriefIran test fires missiles amid global flap over its nuclear ambitions ‘Hitler’ comedy musical, staged in Tel Aviv and now Berlin, suggests war wounds are healingBERLIN — A musical in Berlin with swastikas, goose-stepping and a catchy tune called “Springtime for Hitler” might be expected to draw outrage from a German public sensitive to playing the Nazi past for comedy. |