Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp May 5, 1985

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In this speech, Ronald Reagan commemorates the victims of the Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp. He starts with a painful reliving of what it must have been like during those dark times. He tells us that there are lessons to be learned from such an evil tragic place and that death cannot rule forever. He ends by saying that we are all witnesses and we must pledge: Never again.

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Chancellor Kohl and honored guests, this painful walk into the past has done much more than remind us of the war that consumed the European Continent. What we have seen makes unforgettably clear that no one of the rest of us can fully understand the enormity of the feelings carried by the victims of these camps. The survivors carry a memory beyond anything that we can comprehend. The awful evil started by one man, an evil that victimized all the world with its destruction, was uniquely destructive of the millions forced into the grim abyss of these camps.

Here lie people