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History and freedom on trial
Today, two Polish historians await the verdict of a libel case brought against them for documenting Polish complicity in the extermination of the Jews during World War II. DAVID ROSENBERG reports
The Nazis’ largest death camp, Auschwitz
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TWO WEEKS ago I was preparing a talk for a PCS union branch for Holocaust Memorial Day.
That day commemorates the liberation of the Nazis’ largest death camp, Auschwitz, by the Red Army.
Jews from more than 20 countries were deported to their deaths there. But in that talk I remarked that the prime focus on Auschwitz obscures a key aspect of the Holocaust that needs to be assimilated: that, on the eve of the Nazi invasion, half of the Jews who would be murdered in the Holocaust were citizens of Poland.
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