German president Joachim Gauck visits former Nazi concentration camp in Czech town of Terezin

Czech Republic's President Miloz Zeman, right, and his Germany's counterpart Joachim Gauck, left, walk to lay a wreath of flowers at a memorial in former nazi concentration camp of Terezin in Terezin, Czech Republic, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Gauck is to Czech Republic on a three-day official visit. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (The Associated Press)

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Germany's President Joachim Gauck, right, walks with holocaust survivor Felix Kolmer, left, to lay a flower as they meet at the former nazi concentration camp of Terezin in Terezin, Czech Republic, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Gauck is to Czech Republic on a three-day official visit. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (The Associated Press)

Germany's President Joachim Gauck lays a wreath of flowers at a memorial in former nazi concentration camp of Terezin in Terezin, Czech Republic, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Gauck is to Czech Republic on a three-day official visit. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (The Associated Press)

Germany's president has visited the former Nazi concentration camp in Terezin where tens of thousands perished during the Holocaust.

Together with his Czech counterpart Milos Zeman, President Joachim Gauck laid a wreath Tuesday to honor some 35,000 victims who died there during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. More than 100,000 others were transported from Terezin to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps.

It was a second such reconciliatory gesture by Gauck after he visited Lidice during his previous trip to the Czech Republic two years ago, a town completely destroyed by the Nazis, who also killed all its male citizens.

In a speech at Prague's Charles University, Gauck called the occupation and the subsequent expulsion of some 3 million ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia the "sad culmination" of relations between neighbors.

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