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Holocaust denial, it was thought, was put to rest with the humiliation in court of David Irving.
However, denial is rampant in the Middle East, and across Europe there is a political manipulation of the Holocaust, its trivialisation or obfuscation, and its labelling as just one genocide among many.
In this episode, Wendy Robbins visits Lithuania where 95% of its Jews didn't end up in concentration camps, but instead were herded – often by their neighbours - into specially-dug pits, and shot. Yet the popular Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius doesn't even mention it.
As the Baltic states look for an identity in the wake of independence from the communists, the Holocaust is being politically manipulated. The public wearing of swastikas is legal and the few remaining Holocaust survivors are being hounded as "war criminals."

BROADCASTS

  1. Wed 8 Dec 2010
    12:32
    BBC World Service
  2. Wed 8 Dec 2010
    16:32
    BBC World Service
  3. Thu 9 Dec 2010
    00:32
    BBC World Service
  4. Thu 9 Dec 2010
    04:32
    BBC World Service
  5. Sat 11 Dec 2010
    20:05
    BBC World Service
  6. Sun 12 Dec 2010
    02:05
    BBC World Service
  7. Sun 12 Dec 2010
    23:05
    BBC World Service