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Eighty years ago today, Red Army soldiers liberated the surviving prisoners at Auschwitz, one of many Nazi death camps but now an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Today, there will be no Russian representative at the official commemorations of the Holocaust at Birkenau, eight decades on. This podcast explores the complex nature of memorialisation at Auschwitz and the challenges of managing memorialisation, tourism and the past.
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Eighty years ago today, Red Army soldiers liberated the surviving prisoners at Auschwitz, one of many Nazi death camps but now an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Today, there will be no Russian representative at the official commemorations of the Holocaust at Birkenau, eight decades on. This podcast explores the complex nature of memorialisation at Auschwitz and the challenges of managing memorialisation, tourism and the past.
If you enjoy the Explaining History podcast and its many years of content and would like to help the show continue, please consider supporting it in the following ways:
If you want to go ad-free, you can take out a membership here
Or
You can support the podcast via Patreon here
Or you can just say some nice things about it here
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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