Auschwitz concentration camp
European leaders rewrite WWII history on Auschwitz liberation anniversary
As European leaders gathered at Auschwitz to commemorate 80 years since its liberation, they upheld a revisionist narrative that downplays the role of the Red Army in defeating Nazism
Liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz by Soviet Army
The camp became a major site of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the Jewish Question, where more than one million Jews, Poles, Romani and Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were exterminated, many in gas chambers.
Polish communists protest demolition of WW2 memorial
The Polish Communist Party said the recent dismantling of the monument dedicated to Red Army soldiers was similar to the acts of the Taliban and Islamic State against historical structures
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