Germany's Merkel voices 'shame' during 1st Auschwitz visit
By VANESSA GERA and MARKUS SCHREIBER, Associated Press OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced a feeling of "deep shame" during her first-ever visit on Friday to the hallowed grounds of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Adolf Hitler's regime murdered more than a million people. Merkel noted that her visit comes amid rising anti-Semitism and historical