Israeli president evokes horrors, ties at German parliament

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog has addressed Germany’s parliament about atrocities committed during the Third Reich. At the same time, he used his speech Tuesday at the Bundestag to praise the close and friendly relations that have emerged between the two countries since the end of the Holocaust. Six million European Jews were murdered by Germany’s Nazis and their henchmen during World War II. Herzog and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier also visited the site of the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany on Tuesday afternoon. The Israeli president arrived for a state visit to Germany earlier this week.