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Remembrance at 80 years

As the potential for new concentration camps ramps up in 2025, the world marks the 80th anniversary of the closing of one of the worst concentration camps in 1945.

Memorials, remembrance, and retelling are important ways of resistance to fascism.

In Germany – where the Nazis rose to power – there’s what’s known as a Culture of Remembrance. It’s a commitment to confront, and to take responsibility, for the Holocaust.

But German memory culture – despite being well established – isn’t without its critics. There are figures on the far right who have sought to recast the country’s Nazi past or even downplay it.

Memorial at the wall…
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  • Ceremonies have begun to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
  • About 50 survivors have returned to the site to lay wreaths and candles, and some will later give speeches at a service with King Charles and world leaders.
  • Polish President Andrzej Duda says his country’s job is to preserve the memory of Auschwitz “in order to never let it happen again”.

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