JUNE 2009 – PART II

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US President Barack Obama arrives in the eastern German city of Dresden on June 4, 2009. Obama is also set to visit the former concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar on June 5 on the brief German leg of his international tour.
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US President Barack Obama, right, signs the city’s visitor’s book in Dresden, Germany, Friday, June 5, 2009, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks on. Obama, en route from Egypt to France, will visit Dresden, the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald and the US regional medical center in Landstuhl during his stopover in Germany.
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WEIMAR, GERMANY – JUNE 05: U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visit the former Buchenwald concentration camp on June 5, 2009 near Weimar, Germany. Obama is visiting the site after his stop in Cairo, where in his speech to the Muslim world he made an appeal against Holocaust denial.
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U.S. President Barack Obama tours the Buchenwald concentration camp with Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel and German Chancellor Angel Merkel, Friday, June 5, 2009, in Buchenwald, Germany. At far right is survivor Bertrand Herz.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (2ndR) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel listen to Holocaust survivors Elie Wiesel (R) and Bertrand Herz (L) during a visit to the former Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near the eastern German city of Weimar, June 5, 2009.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (R) and French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy arrive with US President Barack Obama (C) and his wife Michelle (L) on June 6, 2009 at the Caen Prefecture prior the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy during a bilateral meeting at the Prefecture of Caen June 6, 2009.
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US President Barack Obama (L) shakes hands with a French veteran on June 6, 2009 at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer during the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France. ———–MARCEL MOCHET/AFP/Getty Images

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US President Barack Obama (L) sings the US national anthem as he stands with other leaders at ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the allied landings at the US war cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, June 6, 2009. Pictured from left to right are Oama, Britain’s Prince Charles, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (R) arrives with US First Lady Michelle Obama on June 6, 2009 at the Caen Prefecture prior the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France.
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U.S. President Barack Obama (C), Britain’s Prince Charles (3rd L), British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R), Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2nd R) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (3rd R) talk with World War II veterans Clyde Combs (L) of Houston, Texas, and Ben Franklin (2nd L), of Knoxville, Tennessee, during the 65th anniversary of D-Day while at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer June 6, 2009.
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French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy welcomes US First Lady Michelle Obama (L), on June 6, 2009 at the Caen Prefecture before the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France.
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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, right, and U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama, react, during an arrival ceremony at the Prefecture of Caen, northwestern France, Saturday, June 6, 2009. Obama and Sarkozy will attend ceremonies Saturday marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy.
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U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the American Cemetery at Colleville-Sur -Mer, near Caen, Western France, Saturday, June 6, 2009 to attend the 65th Anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy.
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A man wearing a badge showing US President Barack Obama attends the D-Day ceremony on June 6, 2009 at the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer during the commemorations marking the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 allied landings in Normandy, northwestern France. As star guest of the commemorations, US President Barack Obama delivers a speech before 9,000 people including 200 US D-Day veterans at a clifftop graveyard in northern France which has become a symbol of America’s sacrifice for Europe’s freedom.
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Marine One, bottom left, with the President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama onboard flies over the beaches of Normandy after the ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy in Western France, Saturday, June 6, 2009.
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