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Aug 17, 2017 marcel ophulss the memory of justice never suggests that auschwitz and the my lai massacre, or french torture prisons in algiers, are equivalent, let alone that the vietnam war was a criminal enterprise on the same level as the holocaust. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. According to academic, author and historian ian buruma 1945 was a pivotal year not only for europe but for the world at large. The washington post book worldto some, england has long represented tolerance, reason, and political moderation.
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