BERLIN, May 9 (UPI) -- In noting the 60th anniversary of the Nazi downfall, German President Horst Koehler called for remembrance of the Germans who also suffered and died.
His address to both houses of the Reichstag, or parliament Sunday, Hohler spoke of the immense suffering and damage Adolph Hitler's Germany inflicted on Jews, gypsies, opponents of the Nazi regime and homosexuals, the International Herald Tribune said Monday.
"We think of the millions of people who died in foreign prisons and the hundreds of thousands of women and girls who were sent to Soviet forced-labor camps," he said. "We think of the suffering of German refugees and those forcibly expelled, the raped women and victims of bomb attacks against German civilians."
As he spoke, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder went to Moscow to attend one of the largest-ever ceremonies celebrating the end of the war in Europe. Schroeder was the first German leader ever invited to such ceremonies.
