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Vice President JD Vance He toured the Dachau concentration camp in Germany on Thursday before the Munich Security Conference and a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for Friday.
Vance and his wife Second Lady Usha VanceHe toured the site that has become a powerful symbol of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany against Jews and other minority groups during World War II.
“What happened here should never happen again,” Vance told a group of dignitaries near the entrance to the camp.
Vice President JD Vance visits the Dachau concentration camp on February 13, 2025, after his arrival in Bavaria to commemorate the victims and survivors of the Nazi terrorist regime and the 80th anniversary of the release of the camp for the US forces on the 29th April 1945. (Peter Kneffel/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
“I have read a lot in books,” he added. “But being here, and seeing it closely in person, really takes home what was committed by indescribable and why we should commit ourselves to guarantee that it never happens again.”
The couple, who toured the site next to Abba Naor, 96, a survivor of the holocaust who was an inmate in Dachau, also placed a crown crown with a red, white and blue ribbon at the base of the international monument: a sculpture of bronze that represents humans entangled in spike wire.
Then they stopped on a wall that reads “never again” in five different languages. In front of the wall is an urn with the ashes of an unknown prisoner.
Vice President JD Vance, the second lady Usha Vance and the survivor of the Holocaust, Abba Naor, travel the Memorial site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, on February 13, 2025. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP through Getty Images)
More than 200,000 people were held in Dachau Between 1933-1945 and experts believe that more than 40,000 people were killed there.
Vance is the last high US official to visit the site. He was traveled by President Joe Biden, both as vice president during the administration of Obama and as a commander in chief, as well as by Vice President Mike Pence During the first Trump administration.
“I’m really touched by this site,” Vance said. “It is very important that it is here, and it is very important that those of us who are lucky to be alive and we can walk, we can know what happened here and commit ourselves to do everything to prevent it from happening again.”
Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha Vance placed a crown in the old Dachau concentration camp on February 13, 2025. (Peter Kneffel/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
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The five -day trip to Europe will also include its assistance to the Munich Security Conference, which begins on Friday.
There he will meet with world leaders, including Zelenskyy, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
It is expected that Vance and the Ukrainian President discuss the plans of President Donald Trump to finish the three -year war.
