The Nazi legacy

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The crimes committed in Germany's name by a minority of the population remain a mark of Cain on the national psyche, accepted by some and resented by others. This chapter shows that constant confrontation with the Nazi period and neo-Nazis on the one hand, and with the witness of the people and peoples who suffered for the Nazi ideology on the other. Hans Frank, the Governor-General of Poland throughout its occupation by the Nazis, said, before his execution for war crimes at Nuremberg in 1946, when he appeared to take some responsibility for his actions: 'A thousand years will pass without taking this guilt away from Germany'. The sites of the major concentration camps in Germany, such as Dachau, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen and Sachsenhausen are national memorials to the victims; buildings and barracks have been made into museums, and their historical context and the crimes committed there are explained in the plainest of language.

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