Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (front L) walk through the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, main camp Auschwitz I, (front, 2nd from left to right. Elke Büdenbender, wife of Federal President Steinmeier; Ewa Pasterak, employee of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial; Britta Ernst, wife of Federal Chancellor Christian Pfeil; Holocaust survivor) on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2025. Jesco Denzel/Bundesregierung via Getty Images