French President Francois Hollande commemorates the 100th anniversary of World War I with an appeal to players in the Gaza conflict to put animosities aside — just as France and Germany have done.
Hollande gives an impassioned speech Sunday in Vieil Armand in Alsace, marking Germany’s declaration of war on France on August 3, 1914. He is joined by German President Joachim Gauck — the first time Germany’s head of state has attended the event.
France’s President Francois Hollande, right, stands next to German President Joachim Gauck, left, as they pay respect in the crypt of the the National Monument of Hartmannswillerkop, in Wattwiller, eastern France, Sunday, August 3, 2014, to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I. (photo credit: AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool)
Hollande remembers the 30,000 men killed around Vieil Armand, known in German as Hartmannswillerkopf, but points out that France and Germany, “who were regarded as hereditary enemies,” reconciled.
He appeals to the world to use Franco-German peace as a lesson in peacemaking and “to stop the suffering of the civilian population,” in Gaza.
— AP
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