German and French President Francois Hollande and Joachim Gauck was a week given hug to celebrate the friendship between the two countries, at the opening ceremony of the centenary of the First World War in the early Hartmannswillerkopf (High-Rhin).
At the crime scene before 10:00, MM Gauck Holland and press the "hole in the honor" of side to the crypt Hartmannswillerkopf sixty monument with the train veterans of the Haut-Rhin framed page.
After a brief presentation of the site, signed a joint statement on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone of the German-German history Hartmannswillerkopf "first bi-national institution dedicated to the First World War." The museum opened its doors in 2017.
"Terrible battle that destroyed (...) have Hartmannswillerkopf sacred place where the memory keeps tearing of the twentieth century. Through the construction of this unique museum of its kind, the emblem and symbol of friendship between France and Germany are agreed in their memory , "the statement said. The text, the co-author of the two presidents seals the cylinder placed in the cornerstone of the museum.
The two presidents took a few moments in front of a bronze statue in the crypt of the screen that says about 12,000 French and German soldiers were buried in the ashes of the unknown.
Pressed against each other, where two long and warm embrace these goals, the President cameras and photographers.
One hundred years to the day after the declaration of war by Germany, France, Holland MM Gauck and then gave his speeches victims of some 30,000 people in the fight against in both countries, who died the rock against. But the establishment of peace in Europe after the Second World War.
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