In an address memorializing the 60th anniversary of the liberation of a death camp in Poland, Pope John Paul II remarked on the “systematic destruction of an entire people,” remarking how this destruction “falls like a shadow on the history of Europe and the whole world.”
The Holocaust was “a crime which will forever darken the history of humanity.”
Pope John Paul II's sentiment repeated a common theme among leaders in the post-World War II world. John Paul levied a warning to mankind, saying, "May it serve, today and for the future, as a warning: there must be no yielding to ideologies which justify contempt for human dignity on the basis of race, color, language or religion."
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Friday, January 27, 2006
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