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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, this is an important debate and an extremely important anniversary, upon which we are paying tribute to the millions of Jews, Poles and representatives of other nations who were killed in the German concentration camps. We must not forget that the flow of hatred they were swept away by cannot, unfortunately, be relegated to the past, as it continues to be a feature of modern-day life. Today we are faced with cases where lies are told and history is falsified, where the role of the concentration camps is belittled and their existence even denied, and where the Holocaust is minimised. We are also faced with cases where people talk about Polish, not German, concentration camps, which is particularly distressing given the large number of Polish victims of the Second World War. An example of this phenomenon can be found in the weekly supplement included this week with the Belgian newspaper
. We should therefore fight for the historical truth and condemn any manifestation of anti-Semitism, as the latter is a moral disgrace for modern Europe and has been roundly condemned by the Polish Pope, John Paul II. It is an intellectual and moral embarrassment that we should still have to hear reports of its resurgence, particularly in Western Europe, but also in Eastern Europe. We should not quarrel over where this resurgence is taking place. The point is that it is happening. Wherever anti-Semitism surfaces, we should react decisively and consign it to the dustbin of history."@en1
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