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...White Ribbon (Michael Haneke) Strange, brutal crimes afflict a German village in 1913, and everyone--the stern adults, the winsome children--is a suspect in Haneke's spare, unsparing Palme d'Or winner. A masterpiece...
...invasion he spoke of was an undertaking as large and treacherous as anything that has ever been attempted. Thousands of vessels charged the coasts, where German defenses, manned by about 50,000 soldiers, laid in wait. Less than three months later, on August 29, 1944, the death toll in Normandy was staggering: an estimated 38,500 Allied soldiers, 60,000 German troops, and 20,000 civilians had been killed...
...destruction of the Holocaust and the strong, enduring bonds between that great nation and my own. And they could not have known that one day an American President would visit this place and speak of them and that he would do so standing side by side with the German Chancellor in a Germany that is now a vibrant democracy and a valued American ally. They could not have known these things. But still surrounded by death they willed themselves to hold fast to life. In their hearts they still had faith that evil would not triumph in the end, that...
...following are remarks from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Barack Obama and Nazi Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel during a during the first presidential visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany...
...just as we identify with the victims, it's also important for us I think to remember that the perpetrators of such evil were human, as well, and that we have to guard against cruelty in ourselves. And I want to express particular thanks to Chancellor Merkel and the German people, because it's not easy to look into the past in this way and acknowledge it and make something of it, make a determination that they will stand guard against acts like this happening again...