Never again: racism, war and the Holocaust
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.
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