(1 Jul 2021) German President Frank Walter Steinmeier and Israeli President Reuvin Rivlin on Thursday visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.
Nazi Germany and its collaborators committed genocide and murdered 6 million European Jews in the Holocaust.
Germany's postwar leaders have repeatedly apologized for the Nazi atrocities and the country has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in reparations to Jewish victims.
During the visit on Thursday, Steinmeier said the “unspeakable suffering” caused in Germany's name “fills us with pain and shame.”
“We will keep the memory of this alive for the sake of those who were murdered and for the sake of future generations," he said.
Relations between Germany and Israel were difficult in the first decades after the war, but the two countries have developed close ties in recent years.
Germany launched a new initiative with the United States last week to stem an alarming rise in anti semitism and Holocaust denial around the world.
The U.S.-Germany Holocaust Dialogue seeks to reverse the trend, which gained traction during the coronavirus pandemic amid a surge in political populism across Europe and the U.S.
The dialogue creates a way to develop educational and messaging tools to teach youth and others about the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators.

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