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How Salonika became disfigured by anti-semitism
KEVIN OVENDEN charts how the birthplace of the Greek working-class and socialist movement has come to be riven by the far right and rabid nationalist forces
Thessaloniki [Konstantinos Kolimpalis / Creative Commons]

THERE is a dreadful symmetry in the desecration of the Holocaust memorial in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki. 

It took place last Sunday, in the week that ends with today’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz. 

Its perpetrators were the neonazi Golden Dawn, who, according to its leader, are “the seeds of the defeated army of 1945” — of Hitler’s Third Reich.

Greek fascists the Golden Dawn
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