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The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
TODAY thousands of events will take place worldwide to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 75 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex by the Red Army.
The murder of six million Jews, millions of Soviet prisoners of war, hundreds of thousands of Roma and many gay and disabled people by the nazi regime and its collaborators is far from history’s only example of genocide, but the calculated and systematic approach to a project aimed at exterminating entire races was unique. It justifies global commemoration of this as the most horrendous crime committed by any government in history.
Fighting Holocaust denial means maintaining an accurate historical memory. The concerted effort to rewrite the history of the second world war to portray our wartime ally the Soviet Union as jointly complicit with nazi Germany in starting the conflict is dishonest and dangerous.
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