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Article: Weekend: Saturday Essay: The forgotten massacre; State sponsored murder remains one of the most compelling aspects of modern history. But while an entire industry has grown up around the Holocaust, little attention is paid to the Russian gulag camps of Josef Stalin. Steve Curtis on how we choose to remember history.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2002
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Byline: Steve Curtis
The Americans find history easier than we do. Everything starts about 200 years ago and in the first few chapters there are only a dozen or so colonies to concern themselves with. In contrast, the British often find themselves torn between what to remember and what to forget.
In spite of such trouble, Hitler's extermination of the Jews remains one of the most emotive issues of the last 100 years. In modern times, an entire industry has grown up around the events of that era, and a generation that seems to know nothing else now knows ...