Expert Comment
Professor Susan Carruthers on the 80th Anniversary of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberation
Commenting on the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, Professor Carruthers outlines how the difficulties experienced by medical personnel in combating the typhus epidemic foreshadowed the 2020 COVID PPE crisis.
Professor Christoph Mick on Holocaust Memorial Day
Professor Christoph Mick, from the Department of History at The University of Warwick, says, "The name Auschwitz stands for immeasurable suffering, for genocide and crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany. About one million Jews, 74,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and thousands of others targeted by the Nazis were murdered in the Auschwitz camp system."
Holocaust complicity bill passes in Poland - expert comment from Dr Charles Turner
"The court of scholarly opinion on these matters is already robust and well able to marginalise the voices that might make use of such phrases," says Dr Charles Turner, commenting on a controversial new law which will make it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust.