German president: Buchenwald a reminder of Nazi ‘barbarism’

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lays a wreath during events marking the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Germany’s president marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday by reminding his compatriots of the inconceivable atrocities the Nazis committed there during the Third Reich.

“Communists and democrats, homosexuals and so-called asocials were incarcerated at Buchenwald. Jews, Sinti, and Roma were brought here and murdered,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said during a speech in the nearby German town of Weimar, 76 years to the day after US forces liberated the camp.