It is indispensable to remember that the Holocaust was an attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish people and that its trauma means a relentless fear that it might happen again.
The boxing kit is a stunt dreamed up by Brendan Barns, the organiser of the fourth annual London Business Forum, and a man with a mission: to exterminate boring business conferences.
Just 27 years before South Africa's Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu - 80 last week - was born, a German army commander was issuing orders, in writing, to exterminate Namibians, drive them into the desert and poison the wells.