German minister of justice visits children's home
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The German Federal Minister of Justice who compared US President George Bush's rhetoric toward Iraq to a tactic Hitler used is here in the country to attend a human rights conference and meet the children at the Preda Children's Center in Olongapo City on October 9 to 12.
In 2002, Prof. Herta Däubler-Gmelin suggested in an interview that U.S. President George W. Bush wanted the war with Iraq to distract attention from economic problems in the United States. She said these methods had been used several times since the time of Adolf Hitler.
Global estimates put the number of people displaced by war at 57.4 million people. More than half of these are children.
Prof. Herta Däubler-Gmelin is an advocate and known defender of human rights and is active in campaigning against sex tourism and the sexual exploitation of children. She is in the