<br/><br/>US Vice President Mike Pence paid a somber visit to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany today, against the backdrop of concerns about a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States since Donald Trump was elected president.<br/><br/>Pence, his wife Karen and daughter Charlotte toured the camp where more than 200,000 political prisoners, Jews and others were incarcerated by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. More than 40,000 people died there.'<br/>'<br/>Under gray skies, the Pences placed a wreath at a memorial in the center of the camp and visited the barracks, a crematorium and a gas chamber.'<br/>'<br/>Pence signed a guest book, ending his visit with an hour-long service at the Church of Reconciliation on the camp grounds.'<br/><br/>The vice president and other senior figures in the Trump administration are touring Europe to assure nervous allies of Washington's "unwavering" support for NATO, as Pence put it Saturday in a speech to an international security conference in Munich. But the stop in Dachau also had a US dimension to it as it comes amid concerns over a surge of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States.<br/>'''''''<br/><br/>