MAJOR MAINTENANCE – Europe celebrates the 80th this Mondaye anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camps. A painful anniversary at a time when the West continues to fight against anti-Semitism largely reactivated by the conflict in the Middle East, underlines the historian.
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LE FIGARO. – We celebrate this Monday the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camps. This historical event has perhaps never been so widely taught and highlighted in publications or films, and yet it seems more misunderstood. How do you explain this paradox? ?
GEORGES BENSOUSSAN. – We might think a priori that the distance in time does not favor the understanding of the event, but this is a counter-intuitive received idea. There are numerous examples where the perception of the event has on the contrary been refined despite anachronistic points of view which have sometimes distorted understanding. Starting with the First World War, very distant from us now in time and of which no contemporary remains among us, but whose significance has been strengthened. Understanding…
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