Pence visits Dachau

DACHAU, Germany: US Vice-President Mike Pence is touring the site of a former Nazi concentration camp.

Pence is paying a sombre visit to the Dachau (Dah’-khow) camp near Munich that was established by the Nazis in 1933. The vice-president has been joined by a survivor of the camp and other officials.

More than 200 000 people from across Europe were held at Dachau, and more than 40 000 prisoners died there. The camp was liberated by US forces in April 1945.

Pence spoke at the Munich Security Conference of foreign diplomats and defence officials on Saturday and was travelling to Brussels later yesterday for meetings with Nato and European Union officials.

In 2015, then US vice-president Joe Biden visited the site with his granddaughter during a trip to Germany. – AP