Charles III is first British monarch to visit Auschwitz

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An emotional King Charles III yesterday became the first British monarch to visit Auschwitz.

The British Head of State was seen wiping away tears as he was taken on a tour of the camp where the Germans murdered over 1 million people during World War II.

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The King, 76, visited the horrific place to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation by the Soviets towards the end of the deadly conflict.

Today the camp is in Poland but was in Germany during the war.

The King wasn't born during World War II but both of his parents served in the conflict - his mother Queen Elizabeth II was a member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and his father Prince Philip served in the Royal Navy.

Meanwhile, the King's daughter-in-law Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, hugged survivors of the Holocaust which saw the Germans murder 6 million people.

 
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The King seemed rather emotional as he was taken on a tour of the former Nazi extermination camp before he laid a wreath in respect to mark the camp's liberation by the Soviets in 1945.

He's the first British Head of State to visit the former German death camp.

My parents and my sister took a short flight to visit it a few years ago but I've never been. I don't think I want to.

 
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The King: "It's a time we remember all those on whom the Nazis inflicted their violence and hatred"

 
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Jews. The physically disabled. Gays. Transvestites. The Rom. The Poles. The French. The Dutch. The Belgians. The Luxumgourgers. The Russians. The Moravians. The Bohemians.

The English. Especially Londoners. Hitler deliberately switched the focus of the Nazi bombing campaign from the airfields of the South of England to London because he was a cruel, hate-filled psychopath.