{"id":138868,"date":"2025-04-07T09:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T06:10:49","slug":"ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138868\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Former German President Christian Wulff attended the commemoration event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis\u2019 Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday.<br \/>\nGermany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis\u2019 Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday as one of the country\u2019s former presidents warned against \u201cradicalisation and a worldwide shift to the right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor of the state of Thuringia, Mario Voigt, and former German President Christian Wulff spoke at a ceremony in the city of Weimar, near Buchenwald, attended by scores of people, including several Holocaust survivors from across Europe. Voigt \u2013 whose state includes Buchenwald \u2013 called it a \u201cplace of systematic dehumanisation\u201d and said that everything that happened at the death camp was \u201cdesigned to break the human spirit and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Buchenwald concentration camp was established in 1937. More than 55,000 of the almost 300,000 inmates held at the camp and its satellites were killed by Nazis or died as a result of hunger or medical experiments before the camp\u2019s liberation on 11 April, 1945. In the run-up to the memorial event, Israeli officials objected to a planned commemoration speech by philosopher Omri Boehm, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor and a known critic of the Israeli government and its actions in Gaza, prompting organisers to withdraw the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Wulff issued a stark warning about the current global political situation and the rightward shift in politics that has been taking Europe and much of the world by storm, likening it to the Nazi era. \u201cDue to the brutalisation and radicalisation and a worldwide shift to the right, I can now \u2014 and this makes me uneasy \u2014 imagine more clearly how this could have happened back then,\u201d said Wulff referring to the developments leading up to Nazi power consolidation.<\/p>\n<p>He called for active commitment to democracy and the preservation of humanity. \u201cWe bear a permanent, ongoing, eternal responsibility from this because evil must never be allowed to prevail again.\u201d The former German president criticised the rise in anti-immigration sentiment, championed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. He said those who \u201ctrivialise\u201d the party \u201care ignoring the fact that the Alternative for Germany\u2019s ideology is creating a breeding ground for people to feel uncomfortable in Germany and that they are actually in real danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>92-year-old Holocaust survivor Naftali F\u00fcrst spoke at the wreath-laying ceremony held at the camp\u2019s former roll call area. He spent ages 9-12 in four different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. \u201cThere are by now only very few of us left. Soon, we will pass the baton of remembrance on to you for good. In doing so, we are entrusting you with a historic responsibility,\u201d said F\u00fcrst addressing the dwindling number of Holocaust survivors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember on our behalf what you have learned from us. Because you are the witnesses of the witnesses,\u201d he added. \u201cKeep coming back to this place, to Buchenwald, where civilization was reduced to zero. Remain vigilant in our name, and in memory of us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/04\/07\/ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/ceremony-commemorates-80th-anniversary-of-buchenwald-camp-liberation\/\">Ceremony commemorates 80th anniversary of Buchenwald camp liberation<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[18462,18463,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-138868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-80th-anniversary-of","tag-buchenwald-camp-liberation","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}