- Pete Hoekstra, the US ambassador to the Netherlands, on Thursday visited a Dutch cemetery where members of an elite Nazi unit intricately involved in the Holocaust are buried.
- “A terrible reminder of the cost of going to war and why we must always work towards peace,” Hoekstra tweeted on his visit to the Ysselsteyn cemetery.
- It’s unclear if Hoekstra was aware members of the Waffen SS, the elite Nazi unit, are buried at the cemetery.
- Trump tapped Hoekstra to be the US ambassador to the Netherlands in 2017.
- His tenure got off to a rocky start due to anti-Muslim comments he made regarding the Netherlands back in 2015.
President Donald Trump’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Pete Hoekstra, on Thursday visited a Dutch cemetery where many Nazis are buried and described it as a “terrible reminder of the cost of going to war.”
“Walked among the graves at Ysselsteyn, a cemetery for German soldiers from WWI & WWII. A terrible reminder of the cost of going to war and why we must always work towards peace,” Hoekstra tweeted.
Many members of the the Waffen SS, an elite Nazi military unit, are buried at the Ysselsteyn cemetery. The Waffen SS was responsible for numerous war crimes and intricately involved in the Holocaust.
Read the article by John Haltiwanger in Business Insider Australia.