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German President: History Should Not be Set AsideVisiting German President Johannes Rau stressed Monday that people should not forget history, but to study it in depth.Speaking after private talks with his Greek counterpart, Costis Stephanopoulos, Rau, who arrived here Monday for a three- day official visit, said that his scheduled visit Tuesday to Kalavrita in the Peloponnese peninsula was a symbolic action, which stressed that a people and a country should not forget or set aside its history, rather it should study it in depth. He was in reference to the atrocities committed by the Nazis in Greece during the Second World War. On December 13, 1943, the German Nazis burned all the houses and executed more than a thousand of Kalavrita's male population. Rau,along with the Greek president, will visit the town and lay a wreath at the monument erected on the site. The German president late Monday also met with Greek Parliament President Apostolos Kaklamanis. On Tuesday, Rau will hold talks with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis and inaugurate an Athens-Munich paintings exhibition. It is the third president of Germany to visit Greece since the end of the Second World War, and after Greece, Rau will also visit Turkey.
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