Vice President JD Vance visits the Dachau concentration camp in Germany ahead of the Munich Security Conference, laying a wreath at the memorial site and emphasizing the importance of preventing such atrocities from happening again.
Key Points
Vance and his wife laid a wreath at the International Monument and visited the urn containing the ashes of an unknown prisoner
More than 200,000 people were held at Dachau between 1933-1945, with over 40,000 believed to have been killed
Vance emphasized the importance of remembering history to prevent future atrocities
Pros
Raising awareness about the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany during World War II
Honoring the victims and survivors of the Holocaust