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“Fascism, resistance and remembrance policy in Lithuania and Germany”
Events to mark the 72nd anniversary of the start of World War II

Berlin, 31 August 2011. On the 72nd anniversary of the invasion of Poland, the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” is supporting events that mark the start of the war by National Socialist Germany on 1 September 1939.

“The National Socialist regime justified the invasion of Poland with a bare-faced lie – that an attack was being repelled. The corresponding ‘acts of punishment’ directed against Germany’s neighbour set the course for an unprecedented war of expansion and extermination in Eastern Europe,” said Guenther Saathoff, Co-Director of the Foundation. “One priority of the Foundation’s work is to anchor the National Socialist war crimes and the massive scale on which they were committed firmly in the European memory, and to promote dialogue on the different portrayals of historical events in Europe. This year, to mark the start of the war 72 years ago, the Foundation EVZ is supporting various events that take a critical look at the Holocaust and resistance to the National Socialist regime in Lithuania and Germany.”

The two-part event “Fascism, resistance and remembrance policy in Lithuania and Germany”, organised by Bildungswerk für Friedensarbeit e.V., is being held in the Information Centre at the Memorial for Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin on 1 and 3 September 2011.
Event I: Holocaust and resistance
1 September, 18:30, with Fania Brantsovskaya and Christoph Dieckmann

Event II: Holocaust obfuscation
3 September, 17:00, with Dovid Katz and Gerd Wiegel

Location: Memorial for Murdered Jews of Europe, Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin
Admission free. For more information go to www.bildungswerk-friedensarbeit.org/wp

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