Charlie Rose's Monday, June 8, 2009 conversation with Elie Wiesel - History, Books - Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor

CHARLIE ROSE: Elie Wiesel is here. He has spent a lifetime teaching and writing
about the Holocaust, calling for acceptance, dialogue, understanding and
memory. He’s been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United
States Congressional Gold Medal and the rank of Grand-Croix in the French
Legion of Honor. I 1986, he won the Nobel Prize for Peace.

He has just returned from Germany, where he visited the Buchenwald
concentration camp with President Obama and German Chancellor Angela
Merkel. Here is a look at what they said there.

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ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): We the Germans
are faced with the agonizing question how and why, how could this happen.
How could Germany wreak such havoc in Europe and the world.

BARACK OBAMA: To this day, there are those who insist that the
Holocaust never happened, a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and
ignorant and hateful. This places is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts.
A reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our
history.

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