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The first to go
When the nazi party started the Holocaust, first to be murdered were not Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals or trade unionists. They were the disabled. PETER FROST tells the horrific story
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
ALMOST as soon as president Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor of Germany on January 30 1933 the nazis started to put together obscene plans to improve the Aryan race that they thought would make up the population of a German Reich that would last for 1,000 years.
First to be chosen for mass murder were the disabled. By March 1933, the Reichstag had adopted the Enabling Act that would make their plans legal.
The nazis twisted Charles Darwin’s ideas of natural selection, in particular the idea of survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, and applied them to the human world and society to justify widespread enforced sterilisation and even murder.
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