BERLIN (AFP) - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged on Sunday (April 19) to fight Holocaust denial as a trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BERLIN - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas pledged on Sunday to fight Holocaust denial as a trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark the 75th anniversary of their liberation in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
"Over 20,000 people lost their lives in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. If we held a minute of silence for each of them, there would be silence for two weeks," Mr Maas said in a video statement.Germany assumed the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance last month, and Mr Maas said it would use the year at the helm to"fight against those who deny or distort the history of the Holocaust.
Sachsenhausen, located just north of Berlin, is one of several former camps which were liberated by Allied forces 75 years ago this week. More than 50,000 people died at the Bergen-Belsen camp, including the diarist Anne Frank, whose accounts of the Holocaust have become a symbol of the suffering inflicted by the Nazis during World War II.
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