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Holocaust Memorial Day – shining a light on the past and the present
We need to guard against historical revisionism, while recognising just how close Nazi-fascism came to achieving its stated goal, warns PHIL KATZ
ARBEIT MACHT FREI: A general view of the gates at Auschwitz I camp, viewed from inside the camp
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JOHN REES looks at why the June 20 international anti-war conference is such a vital initiative
ROGER McKENZIE highlights how health workers in DRC are struggling to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak in a region already suffering conflict, aid cuts and a legacy of imperialist degradation
Associate Professor BUI QUANG TUAN explains how modernisation and growth are helping to unlock new foreign investment in the Vietnamese economy
HOLOCAUST Memorial Day, HMD, seeks to shine a light on the attempted destruction of the Jews, Roma and Sinti people, during World War II.
Nowhere before in history had a political movement emerged — Nazism — whose principal aim was the use of state power to completely erase another group from the face of the Earth. As a result of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, this was all to be achieved legally.
Nowadays, we memorialise the Holocaust, but all too rarely stop to recognise how close Nazi-fascism came to achieving its stated goal.
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