Holocaust revisionism is just as bad as denying the atrocity

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The Latvian Legion is commemorated on March 16, 2012. The annual event is controversial because the force was commanded by the German Nazi Waffen SS during the Second World War. Flickr photograph courtesy of Pablo Andrés Rivero

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

February 5, 2020

OTTAWA—Last week, in honour of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz and the coincidental international Holocaust Memorial Day, I attended a concert in Ottawa, organized by the local chapter of Jewish War Veterans of Canada. I did not expect...

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