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An “ambivalent day”: How the AfD attempts to re-frame the 8th May as day to commemorate German Victimhood

Suggestions to make the 8th May a national German holiday on occasion of the 75th anniversary of the end of Second World War have given the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)…

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David Sierakowiak’s Lodz Ghetto Diary

In the latest of a series looking at eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, CARR Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb presents David Sierakowiak’s account of the Lodz Ghetto, describing the horrific…

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The Liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 1945

In this latest CARR Insights Blog, Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb, provides a descriptive account of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and what those events mean for the remembrance of the…

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75th commemoration of the Sonderkommando Revolt at Auschwitz–Birkenau

During the Second World War, the Sonderkommando [Special Working Group] was forced by Auschwitz-Birkenau’s SS commandantur to carry out the ghastly work at the gas chambers. This included leading the…

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Antisemitism: A Social Barometer of Historical Proportions

Roughly 80 Jewish graves were vandalised in Quatzenheim, France, this week. Eight British MPs left the Labour Party complaining of an entrenched culture of antisemitism. In the United States, where…

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