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Mr President, Commissioner Frattini, members of the Council, over 50 years ago, the thought of peace for the people of a continent wrecked by two world wars was the one thing motivating the founding fathers of this European Union of ours – men such as Schuman, Monnet and Adenauer, and I wish they could be present in this House at this moment today, when Members from 25 Member States remember those liberated 60 years ago from the German Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, we commemorate all the Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Poles and people of other nationalities who were murdered there and in other camps.
Speaking here today as a German Member of this House, I am well aware of the deeds committed by Germans in the name of my people over 60 years ago. I face up to the responsibility that devolves upon my people and my generation as a result of them. Our joining together today to remember the suffering, our joining together in calling for remembrance – not only of the concentration and extermination camps, but also of the crimes committed in them – that alone can serve as a warning to future generations that genocide has its roots in contempt for others, in hatred, anti-Semitism, racism and totalitarianism.
We, the representatives of the citizens of this united European Union, are united in condemning every kind of intolerance and incitement to racial hatred, particularly all anti-Semitic acts and manifestations and all acts of violence motivated by hatred or intolerance for other religions or races. We likewise condemn attacks on religious sites, places and shrines belonging to Jews, Christians, Muslims or other faith communities, as well as all acts of violence committed against minorities.
All of us, then, must work to promote cooperation and dialogue between the various groups in society, boldly and publicly denouncing intolerance, discrimination and racism. Neither today nor in the future must we forget our history or seek to shut the door on it. Our founding fathers faced up to the history that was theirs and is ours. They met together as a small band, with the aim of creating a Europe that would be peaceful, free, democratic and secure. Today it is for us, in greater numbers, to continue the work on this responsible task. Let us show ourselves worthy of it, capable of enabling this continent to grow through the twenty-first century in peace and diversity; for and with those who live now and will live in the future, and remembering those who did not live to see a peaceful Europe."@en1
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