Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of Calendar No. 473, S. Res. 542. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The bill clerk read as follows: A resolution (S. Res. 542) commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp during World War II. There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution, which had been reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations, with an amendment to strike all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic, and with an amendment to strike the preamble and insert the part printed in italic, as follows S. Res. 542 Whereas the Dachau concentration camp, established in March 1933-- (1) was the first concentration camp established by the German National Socialist, or ``Nazi'', government; (2) served as a model for all subsequent Nazi concentration camps; (3) was a training center for the notoriously brutal SS concentration camp guards; and (4) operated continuously until the end of World War II in 1945; Whereas the Dachau concentration camp housed Germans who were deemed political, racial, or social threats by the Nazi regime, including Communists, Social Democrats, Jews, Roma, members of the clergy, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other religious and cultural minorities; Whereas, in addition to Germans, prisoners at the Dachau concentration camp included Poles, Hungarians, Austrians, Italians, Lithuanians,…”