Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the Wannsee House, the site of a key 1942 meeting during which the Nazis formalized plans for the extermination of the Jews. Netanyahu visited Wannsee Thursday between meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the German foreign minister.

Earlier, Netanyahu was presented with the architectural blueprints for the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during a ceremony in Berlin.

"Armed barbarians need to be stopped in time for human lives to be saved and civilization secured," said Netanyahu - a reference to the Allies' failure to stop the Nazis but also an allusion to the current situation with Iran.

He thanked Kai Dickman, editor of the Bild newspaper, for presenting him with the plans, which he referred to as "the gift of truth." He called the plans, which were discovered last year in a Berlin home and subsequently acquired by the Berlin-based Axel Springer publishing and media corporation, which publishes Bild, "a very important historical document."

During the ceremony, which took place at the publishing house, Netanyahu said that shortly after his brother, Yoni Netanyahu, was killed at Entebbe, his father was brought here and that at the time, Springer had looked out at the view of Berlin and said to him, "This is where freedom ends and tyranny begins."

The prime minister said that there was a connection between terrorism and tyranny, just as there was a connection between freedom and peace.

Flanked by his wife Sara, whose family was decimated by the Holocaust, and Minister Yossi Peled, who was saved by a Christian family, Netanyahu said that the facts of the Holocaust were indisputable, and that anyone who needed proof had only to look at the plans.

"There are those who deny the Holocaust happened. Instead of saying, 'Let them come to Berlin,' we can now say, 'Let them come to Jerusalem,'" he said.

Another lesson, the prime minister added, is that not only was it important for Jews to defend themselves, "but it is also important for leaders of other nations to recognize that their own state is imperiled by those who threaten our fate."

The blueprints include detailed plans for the camp, and some of the documents bear notes in the margins, or signatures by senior Nazis, including Heinrich Himmler.

Yad Vashem Chairman Avner Shalev and Director of Yad Vashem Archives Haim Gertner also took part in the ceremony.

The document will be housed at Yad Vashem.

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