A century after the beginning of the Great War, Francois Hollande was Sunday reconciliation and the Franco-German friendship “ an example for the world ” and especially the Middle East calling “ more than ever ” for a cease-fire in Gaza.
One hundred years to the day after the declaration of war from Germany to France, French head of state and his German counterpart Joachim Gauck commemorated on the site Hartmannswillerkopf in Alsace, the sacrifice of the soldiers of the War of 14-18.
In this place the renamed Old Armand by and hairy mountain “ man eating “, at least 30,000 of them were killed in fierce fighting for control of a rocky outcrop overlooking its 956 meters the plain of Alsace . As they did a year earlier in Oradour-sur-Glane, Limousin village martyr, a large part of the population was massacred by the SS in June 1944, the two presidents are ostensibly taken and repeatedly hand during ceremonies
long and warm hug -.
In the crypt of the National Monument erected in 1932 Hartmannswillerkopf, they are also given a long and warm hug collected after a few moments before the huge bronze shield would be based under which some 12,000 French and German unknown soldiers mingled in death.
“ history France and Germany demonstrates that the will can always triumph over fate and that of the people who were regarded as hereditary enemies can be reconciled in a few years , “commented the head of the French State a “ message ‘to those who despair of the peace process in the Middle East. “ What more beautiful message we can deliver that today? ,” said he said. “ All our efforts must be tightened to require, more than ever, the cease-fire in Gaza and end the suffering of civilians ,” said Francois Hollande.
friendship between France and Germany were “ the audacity to reconcile ” is “ an example for the world, a force and an invitation everywhere where peace is threatened, wherever human rights are violated, wherever the principles of international law are cheated , “said he still argues evoking as Ukraine, the Christians of Iraq and women in Nigeria.
As Joachim Gauck, Hollande comes a vibrant praise “ exceptional adventure ” European construction “ managed to defeat the war “and” reunify the continent in democracy . “
However, he has lamented that Europe is” appeared powerless to crises “and” has not brought the expected prosperity “, merely according to him becoming” obvious and not an ideal . ” To return to this ideal, Francois Hollande has again called on Europe to “ open a perspective of growth, employment, solidarity but also of culture, education and knowledge .” And to do that, he has chained “ much will depend on the friendship between France and Germany .”
“It is true : Europe is a difficult project “, echoed the German president, considered a moral authority in his country. But “ the European Community and European integration are not the vagaries of history, it is the institutional translations of the lessons of history, insurance against mistakes and temptations ” nationalist or . populistHistorial-
In Hartmannswillerkopf, François Hollande and Joachim Gauck observed the ritual commemorations: Military ceremony, wreath laying, moment of silence , meeting with hundreds of young French and Germans gathered by the Franco-German Youth Office …
But they also filed the first stone of a “historial ” also very symbolic of Franco-German reconciliation, as designed by a team of historians bi, a first. This museum “one its kind, (…) symbol of friendship between France and Germany ” will be a “symbol of their reconciled memory “, have they said in a joint statement. On a lighter note, the two presidents then lunch at the farmhouse inn Molkenrain fixed on film by François Truffaut in his film “Jules and Jim .”
But they have not done so far with commemorations, expected on Monday in Belgium for those of the centenary of the invasion of the Kingdom by the troops of the Reich, August 4, 1914.
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