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Nazi Germany (Victims)

Volume 72: debated on Friday 1 February 1985

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asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonealth Affairs if any event is to be held by the wartime allies, the Governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic to commemorate those Germans who suffered, and in many cases were executed, during Nazi rule for their resistance to the dictatorship and at the same time to commemorate all Germans who were the racial and political victims of Nazi rule.

I understand that Chancellor Kohl intends to speak at a commemoration of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, organised by the Central Jewish Council, on 21 April. But I know of no plan by any of the wartime allies for any international commemoration of the tragic events referred to by the hon. Member.