03:30Germany: Scholz and Israel's Netanyahu visit Platform 17 memorial in Berlin
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the Holocaust memorial 'Platform 17' in Berlin on Thursday to lay wreaths and light candles in commemoration of the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.
"Six weeks before the end of the war, Berlin was already in ruin, the Nazis sent the last shipment of Jews to be exterminated. Our world has changed, Germany has changed, the Jewish state was reborn. But we know that the calls for the annihilation of our people have not stopped," Netanyahu said.
"Israel's security is a German reason of state, and standing here it makes it clear why that is correct and will remain so in the future," Scholz noted
The Platform 17 memorial is located near Grunewald train station, from where around 10,000 Jews were deported by train to concentration and extermination camps in Poland and elsewhere in Germany during World War II.
03:30Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the Holocaust memorial 'Platform 17' in Berlin on Thursday to lay wreaths and light candles in commemoration of the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany.
"Six weeks before the end of the war, Berlin was already in ruin, the Nazis sent the last shipment of Jews to be exterminated. Our world has changed, Germany has changed, the Jewish state was reborn. But we know that the calls for the annihilation of our people have not stopped," Netanyahu said.
"Israel's security is a German reason of state, and standing here it makes it clear why that is correct and will remain so in the future," Scholz noted
The Platform 17 memorial is located near Grunewald train station, from where around 10,000 Jews were deported by train to concentration and extermination camps in Poland and elsewhere in Germany during World War II.