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Why is the Topf & Sons – Builders of the Auschwitz Ovens – Place of Remembrance important to you?

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Because it was here that the engineers made the plans

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to organize the extermination programme

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so that it would be even faster and even more thorough.

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And that was an important prerequisite

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for the mass murder

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of six million Jews and 500,000 Sinti and Roma.

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This Place of Remembrance is especially important for future generations

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to take a stand for

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what has brought us seventy years of peace: democracy.

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We have to regard this as our joint responsibility

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towards our children’s future.

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Today, it’s no longer about passing on the blame

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to the grandchildren or great-grandchildren;

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it’s about taking joint responsibility for the future

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against the background of the experience of history.

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The Nazis not only murdered six million Jews and 500,000 Sinti and Roma;

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they also plunged Europe,

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and in particular Germany, into ruin.

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 And together we must ensure that that can no longer happen.