Herzog on Holocaust: "The past cannot be overcome but the future belongs to us" | DW News

Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday addressed the Bundestag as part of a visit that coincides with the 1972 murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. The visiting president spoke of the need for remembering both Germany's Jewish past and the Holocaust, as well as the importance of shaping the future. Addressing lawmakers, Herzog said that being on German soil meant remembrance as it was a land of images for the Jewish people: "Images of the highest achievements and the lowest."

"For hundreds of years Germany was a homeland for our people. Germany was a home of leading personalities," he said, listing a succession of leading Jewish personalities to whom Germany was home before the Holocaust. “They contributed to the improvement of Germany.” However, Herzog added, Germany also held a unique place in Jewish history given its responsibility for the Holocaust.


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