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Beloved action hero star Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday to deliver the message of 'terminating prejudice once and for all.'
The former Governor of California viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews and others during World War II.
He also met with a woman who as a 3-year-old child was subjected to experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, known as the Angel of Death infamous for his cruel experimentation on inmates at Auschwitz.
'This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again,' he said after his visit to the site of the death camp, speaking in a former synagogue that now is home to the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.
'Let's fight prejudice together and let's just terminate it once and for all,' Schwarzenegger said.
He stood alongside Simon Bergson, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors. The Terminator actor said that he and Bergson, who are close in age, were united in their work to fight prejudice.
Actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger visited former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, near Oswiecim, Poland today
The former Governor of California viewed the barracks, watchtowers and gas remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews and others during World War II
'Let's fight prejudice together and let's just terminate it once and for all,' the Terminator actor said after his tour of the concentration camp
Schwarzenegger signed the visitor's book with his immortal catchphrase 'I'll be back'
Schwarzenegger, who is originally from Austria, also mentioned his own family history.
'I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier,' the 75-year-old said.
He has spoken openly in the past about his father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, being a Nazi soldier during the war.
Gustav Schwarzenegger (17 August 1907 - 13 December 1972), father of Arnold
After his visit to Auschwitz, he vowed it wouldn't be his last, signing the visitor's book with his immortal phrase 'I'll be back'.
His visit to the harrowing heart of the Nazi extermination of the Jews and others during World War II in southern Poland was his first and came as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation, whose mission is to fight hatred through education.
He received the foundation's inaugural 'Fighting Hatred' award in
