What's happened
Germany commemorates the 79th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Why it matters
The event is significant as it marks a day of remembrance for the Holocaust and serves as a reminder to fight against antisemitism and racism.
What the papers say
The Independent reports on Poland's protest over a social media post by the head of the European Commission that wrongly suggested the Auschwitz death camp was Polish. The New York Times covers the demonstrations in Germany on Holocaust Memorial Day, highlighting the rise of far-right parties and the pledge 'Never again'.
How we got here
The event marks the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by the Soviet army during World War II. The day is observed as a day of remembrance for the Holocaust and serves as a reminder to fight against antisemitism and racism.
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Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central and Western Europe. Covering an area of 357,022 square kilometres, it lies between the Baltic and North seas to the north, and the Alps to the south.
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The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust.
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Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture, and history. German is the shared mother tongue of a substantial majority of ethnic Germans.
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Olaf Scholz is a German politician serving as Federal Minister of Finance and Vice Chancellor under Chancellor Angela Merkel since 14 March 2018.
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Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah.
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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe