translate English to German: The peoples of what was then the Soviet Union played a decisive part in bringing this victory about, and they also had to pay an enormous price; all these things we ought to properly appreciate and, of course, reflect upon them, and it is for that reason that I thoroughly endorse what has been said about the events in Tallinn by the head of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem, in these words, which I found very moving:
Das alles sollten wir mit der entsprechenden Würdigung und natürlich auch mit Nachdenklichkeit betrachten. Deshalb stimme ich dem Leiter des Simon-Wiesenthal-Center in Jerusalem, Efraim Zuroff, durchaus zu, der zu diesen Ereignissen in Tallinn Folgendes sagte, was mich sehr bewegt hat: