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Elie Wiesel

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That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims of the SS.
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Comments regarding US President Ronald Reagan's proposed visit to a Bitburg cemetery with then German President Helmut Kohl, on receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Reagan (4/1/1985).

 
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