The Latest: Hollande, Merkel Visit Verdun, Wwi Battle Site

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have traveled to Verdun, to honor the martyred city in eastern France that was almost entirely in ruins at the end of World War I. In a speech at city hall, Merkel says "Verdun is the more than the name of your town — Verdun is also one of the most terrible battles humanity has experienced." The French leader says "Verdun is a city that represents — at the same time — the worst, where Europe got lost, and the best, a city being able to commit and unite for peace and French-German friendship." Francois Hollande of France welcomed Angela Merkel of Germany on Sunday under heavy rain at the German cemetery of Consenvoye, near Verdun in eastern France, which was covered in mist and clouds. Some 4,000 French and German children will take part in Sunday's events, which conclude at a mass grave where in 1984, then-French President Francois Mitterrand took then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's hand in a breakthrough moment of friendship and trust by longtime enemy nations.

 

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