BERLIN (AP) — Israel’s president addressed the German parliament on Tuesday about atrocities committed during the Third Reich, while praising the close and friendly relations that have developed between the two countries since the end of the Holocaust.
Six million European Jews were murdered by the German Nazis and their henchmen during World War II.
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