Honouring the Survivors of Nazi Brutality ; Thursday Is Holocaust Memorial Day. Mike Chapple Reports

Daily PostJanuary 25, 2005

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'THOSE who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. " The words of American philosopher George Santayana have never rung truer than where the grim legacy left by the attempted destruction of an entire race just over 60 years ago, in some countries at least, appears to have been forgotten.

The persecution and subsequent extermination of the Jews and others considered racially inferior by the Nazi regime in Germany reached a new level of human depravity in 1942 with the beginning of the "Final Solution".

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Honouring the Survivors of Nazi Brutality ; Thursday Is Holocaust Memorial Day. Mike Chapple Reports

This mass extermination programme was implemented with murderous efficiency by Adolf Eichmann in death camps such as Auschwitz, Belson, Dachau, Majdanek and Treblinka.

The total number of Jewish d...

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