Editing Buchenwald concentration camp (section)

===Visit from President Obama and Chancellor Merkel===
[[File:President Obama Visits Buchenwald Concentration Camp.webm|thumb|Video of President Obama's visit]]
On 5 June 2009 [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Barack Obama]] and [[Chancellor of Germany|German Chancellor]] [[Angela Merkel]] visited Buchenwald after a tour of [[Dresden Castle]] and [[Dresden Frauenkirche|Church of Our Lady]]. During the visit they were accompanied by [[Elie Wiesel]] and [[Bertrand Herz]], both survivors of the camp.<ref name=Whitehouseblog>{{cite web |title=Buchenwald – The WhiteHouseBlog |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/Buchenwald/ |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |date=5 June 2009 |access-date=18 August 2012 }}</ref> {{Interlanguage link|Volkhard Knigge|de}}, the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation and honorary professor of [[University of Jena]], guided the four guests through the remainder of the site of the camp.<ref name=Whitehouseremarks>{{cite speech |title=Remarks By President Obama, German Chancellor Merkel, And Elie Wiesel at Buchenwald Concentration Camp |event=Buchenwald memorial event |location=Weimar, Germany |date=5 June 2009 |publisher=The White House – Office of the Press Secretary |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-german-chancellor-merkel-and-elie-wiesel-buchenwald-concent |access-date=1 May 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129041423/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-german-chancellor-merkel-and-elie-wiesel-buchenwald-concent |archive-date=29 January 2017 }}</ref> During the visit Wiesel, who together with Herz were sent to the [[Little camp]] as 16-year-old boys, said, "if these trees could talk." His statement marked the irony about the beauty of the landscape and the horrors that took place within the camp.<ref name="Whitehouseremarks" /> President Obama mentioned during his visit that he had heard stories as a child from his great uncle, who was part of the [[89th Division (United States)|89th Infantry Division]], the first Americans to reach the camp at Ohrdruf, one of Buchenwald's satellites.<ref name="Whitehouseblog" /> Obama was the first sitting US President to visit the Buchenwald concentration camp.<ref name="cbsnews.com"/>