It is on this date that the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
It is also a monument to the strength of the human spirit which, in appalling conditions of adversity, resisted the efforts of the German Nazi regime to suppress freedom and free thought and to wipe out whole races.
The initial court ruling in October came shortly after Twitter shut down an account used by a German neo-Nazi group based in Hanover, at the request of German police.
Poland was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor.
John Rabe (Ulrich Tukur) was a German businessman and Nazi Party member who ran the Siemens plant in Nanking, China, in the thirties.
The decision to remove the messages comes soon after Twitter shut down an account used by a German neo-Nazi group based in Hanover.
The trial of an alleged German neo-Nazi for the murders of 10 people has been delayed following a row over limits on access to Turkish journalists.
In other cases, like that of Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski-Borbon, a descendant of Polish royalty now living in London, Nazi German occupation meant the loss of their former palaces and the works of art inside them.
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He was referring to Nazi death camps in German-occupied Poland.
After all, not every single German in World War II was a Nazi sympathizer, and not every sports parent is obsessed with a scholarship.
When pressed by law professor Avi Bell on the fact that several hundred thousand German citizens were gassed to death by Nazi Germany, Bayati still refused to take the point.
Ebay's German, Austrian and French sites bar Nazi materials.
Even though the Demjanjuk conviction isn't considered legally binding because he died before his appeals were exhausted, the special German prosecutors' office that deals with Nazi crimes has said about 50 other people in the same category are being investigated.
Eisenhower and George Patton surrounded by Nazi plunder inside the Merkers, German salt mines.
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Of course, the Nazi harassment and persecution of its German Jewish population is a cause of enormous anguish to me as it is to every Jew.
Twitter has blocked access to a neo-Nazi account at the request of the German government.
Riefenstahl was a German film-maker who became notorious for her Nazi propaganda films.
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The picture of their country under Nazi power in the event of a German victory was something the Americans could imagine only with difficulty.
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Pope Benedict the XVI today winds up his four-day visit to Poland with what is likely to be its emotional highpoint: a visit to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by a German Pope.
Since the end of the war, the members of the White Rose have become celebrated figures, as German society has searched for positive role models from the Nazi period.
Describing the Civil Rights Movement without mentioning Jim Crow is like writing about the atrocities committed by the German army in the Second World War and not mentioning Nazi race theory: it leaves out the primary ideological basis of the injustice being described.
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It negotiated compensation for victims of the Nazi period during Austria's union within the German Reich under Hitler.
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One of the letters was by Libertas Schulze-Boysen, a German-born resistance fighter who was once a member of the Nazi party, but left in 1937 and went on join the resistance and collect photographic evidence documenting National Socialist crimes of violence.
German prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp.
The state claims that Mr Kinsky's aristocratic parents were Nazi sympathisers, and that the family switched from Czech to German nationality, which justified the seizures.
In 1938, the Munich agreement was signed between France, Germany, Britain and Italy in which the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia, the Sudetenland, was surrendered to Nazi Germany.
All post-war German history has been about doing right by European countries that once suffered under the Nazi jackboot.
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In 1985, American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced that skeletal remains exhumed from a graveyard in Brazil were those of Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele.
Piaf is most identified with the Trauma of the 1940s, the swift defeat in May 1940, the compromise of surrender, the moral accommodation of Nazi-ism, the collaboration, the humiliation of four years of German occupation, the terrible betrayal of Vichy.
With Nazi forces advancing rapidly on the valley and British Spitfires desperately trying to draw German fire, the transport planes evacuated about 1, 000 wounded partisans in a matter of hours.
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