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Photos Of The Week: Gaza Return, Remembering Auschwitz, Lunar New Year

With striking photographs from Poland, the DR Congo, Gaza and the Shetlands, among other places.

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Trump, Musk, AfD — Why Germany Should Remember Auschwitz Differently This Year

The Holocaust was based on the same ultranationalist ideas that the New Right refers to today. Even if Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Germany’s AfD leader Alice Weidel try to distance themselves from the words associated with Nazism, their politics cannot fool us.

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From Mozart’s Birth To The End Of A War — On This Day In History January 27

The signing of a decisive peace treaty, the liberation of a Nazi camp and the birth of one of the greatest composers of all time.

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This Happened—January 27: Auschwitz Is Liberated

Updated Jan 27, 2024 at 2:45 pm On this day in 1945, prisoners of Poland’s concentration camp, Auschwitz, where Nazis had exterminated more than one million people were finally free. How was Auschwitz liberated? Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive of World War II. Although most of the prisoners […]

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On This Day – January 27

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