Arnold Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz on mission to 'terminate' hate, meets with Holocaust survivor

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Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German death camp in Oswiecim, Poland Nazi Wednesday as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.

The 75-year-old former California governor, who was born in Austria, met with a Holocaust survivor and children of Holocaust survivors from World War II.

Schwarzenegger viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that remain on site as evidence of the German extermination of Jews and others during the war. "This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again," Schwarzenegger said.

Arnold Schwarzenegger toured Auschwitz and met with a Holocaust survivor Wednesday.  (Michal Dyjuk) The action hero turned politician also met with a woman who, as a 3-year-old child, was subjected to experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who was also known as the "Angel of Death." Simon Bergson, the foundation’s chairman, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors, mentioned his own family history. "Arnold and I are living proof that within one generation hatred can be shifted entirely," Bergson said. "Governor, thank you for joining us here today." Schwarzenegger addressed some of his own difficult history. "I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier," he said.