The Shoah is the Hebrew term for The Holocaust.
Who else spoke up?
A day earlier, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also warned against the forgetting of Nazi crimes.
"Confronting National Socialism and the memories of injustice and guilt do not weaken our democracy. On the contrary, it strengthens its resistance and resilience," he said.
The history of US troops in Germany
High-ranking visit at Ramstein military air base
There are almost 35,000 US soldiers stationed in Germany — mostly in the west and south of the country. Nowhere else in Europe are there so many American troops. But now US President Donald Trump wants to change that, withdrawing some 12,000 soldiers from the country. It would be a major test for the military alliance between Germany and the US.