European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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we had not and have not totally liberated ourselves from fascism.
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Therefore we felt the need to inform and to act.
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In school history books, there was very little information about the time:
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General De Gaulle’s speech and the Shoah.
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That is very important, but it is not enough to explain the complexity of World War II.
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We were asked by history teachers to talk about our experience in class.
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We thought it was important to do even more
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and started organizing school trips to different memorials, the places where Nazi crimes were committed.
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We organized school trips to Oradour s/Glane,
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to Struthof, the only Nazi concentration camp there was in France, in Alsace.
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We took classes of three different schools to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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We want to show young people the atrocities of racism and xenophobia, the total absence of freedom.
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There are several of us.
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One comrade, Lucien Ducastel had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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We also do this in memory of our comrades who died in Auschwitz.
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Today more than ever it is necessary to do this work, because in Europe
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because in Europe there is a dangerous rise of fascism.
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Let us remember that Hitler got to power legally.
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Nowadays, there a few European countries that have a right-extremist government.
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It might seem pretentious but we think we have not finished our work.
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