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Mike Houlding's avatar

Very well put. My visits to the IWM have stunned me, and the casual use of genocide by the woke nutters has illustrated their deliberate use of a lie.

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Ian Hunt's avatar

Great article David.

I’ve visited the IWM London, Duxford and War Rooms museums and they are all excellent. I had not visited the IWM London since the 80s, but did so in May 2024, it has improved a lot in the meantime.

I was lucky enough to see the Spies, Lies and Deception exhibition as well as the Holocaust exhibition you write of.

The latter was incredibly powerful and poignant, all the more so as it did not focus on, until the very end, the actual death camps and the brutality of the Final Solution but the lengthy process that occurred in the two decades after WW1 and - as you describe it - the insidious way that Nazi antisemitism developed and percolated, and was normalised throughout all aspects of German society, including the judiciary, over that period.

Also evident from the material on display, posters, propaganda film footage and letters and personal histories was the capture of language to support the normalisation of the horrific persecution which occurred. A process - weaponising language - seen all too frequently, such as the casual and inappropriate use of powerful words like “genocide”.

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