The so-called “International Holocaust Remembrance Day” was introduced with considerable delay by the United Nations exactly twenty years ago, in 2005 (Resolution 60/7). This was done to commemorate the “anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.” It has only been observed worldwide since 2006.
In Great Britain, among others, but especially in Germany, a “Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism” was introduced in 1996, even before this proclamation, but still with a shocking delay.
However, the “victims of National Socialism” include all people who died as a result of the unprecedented totalitarian German tyranny.
This designation therefore not only reduces the importance of the murder of the Jews, but also partially obscures the immeasurable German guilt toward the Jews in particular. The declared aim in National Socialist parlance of a veiled “final solution to the Jewish question,” which means nothing other than the planned complete extermination, is relativized by this “coarseness.”
Finally, in 2002, the education ministers of the states represented in the Council of Europe wanted to introduce a day of “remembrance of the Holocaust and the prevention...
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