As you reflect on Nazi horrors, remember an earlier holocaust
Among the evidence brought by prosecutors at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal was an account of a speech Adolf Hitler gave in Obersalzburg to his generals on the eve of the invasion of Poland, to steel them for the atrocities to come. In it the Nazi leader put the rhetorical question: “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
If the intention was to suggest that the slaughter of millions of Polish Jews and other “inferior races” would be forgotten by history, the Führer has been proved wrong. What became known as the Holocaust is now seen as one of the defining events of the 20th century. On Tuesday we will be reflecting on it with particular intensity, as it marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi- occupied Poland, where an estimated 1m Jews were exterminated: January 27 is commemorated
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