Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
HOLOCAUST Memorial Day, marking the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27 1945, must never be downplayed or misrepresented.
The Nazis’ “final solution” planned the extermination of the whole Jewish race, setting in motion the worst crime committed by any government in history.
Six million Jews were gassed in death camps or rounded up and shot as the German armies advanced. No quarter was given to women or children, however young: the job description of Ukrainian collaborator Fyodor Fedorenko at Treblinka, later tried and executed in the USSR, was to shoot “the elderly, disabled and babies” who were too infirm to be herded into the gas chambers.
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
As Moscow celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi defeat without Western allies in attendance, the EU even sanctions nations choosing to attend, revealing how completely the USSR's sacrifice of 27 million lives has been erased, argues KATE CLARK