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Eighty years after General de Gaulle's famous call, on June 18, 1940, to continue the resistance against Nazi Germany, Emmanuel Macron begins a day of commemoration by going to the Order of the Liberation Museum in the Hôtel des Invalides. The French President celebrates the anniversary in Paris, Suresnes and then London. IMAGES
Tucked away in a remote part of the Austrian Alps, this unassuming construction site is the center of a controversy because of its dark past. The usually normal construction of a meat factory in the Austrian municipality of Haiming, near Innsbruck, continued to raise major questions from locals. What's the big deal? Well, Austrian pork producer Handl Tyrol plans to build a bacon and sausage factory here, on the former grounds of a Nazi forced labour camp. During World War Two, hundreds of prisoners were made to build a dam for a hydro-electric power plant in the area. After the surrender of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, the former labor camp was cleared and remained empty until the land was acquired by Austrian power company Tiwag, which didn't care to develop the land. Recently, Tiwag approved the sale of the site to Handl Tyrol, who made plans to build a new factory as soon as possible. However, Tiwag's sale of the controversial site to the pork producer has garnered criticism from descendants of the former landowners of the site, who say that Nazi authorities pushed them off the land. Still others question the impact on history of building over the site with the checkered past. Handl Tyrol representatives have stated that the question of the sales' legality should have been handled between the former landowners and Tiwag, and have already confirmed that they would not delay construction.
Welcome to the Cultybraggan Camp in Perthshire, a place where Nazi German soldiers and officers would be held afterbeing captured during the Second World War. Believe it or not, the Comrie community revealed plans to renovate ten of the huts into a four star hotel. The former category A camp, built in 1941, held 4,000 high security German prisoners-of-war between 1944 and 1948. It is reportedly the last of its kind to be preserved in the UK and Europe. A trust bought the site from the UK Ministry of Defence in 2005 and has since given permission to local businesses to take over the huts. Now, this former war-time prison is going to be transformed in a luxurious accommodation to pull in the tourists. would you ever stay in the same place as former Nazi prisoners of war?
Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the most infamous and reviled sites in Europe, hosted the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis himself. Pope Francis visited the concentration camp on Friday during his visit to Poland. The leader of Catholicism came to Poland to celebrate World Youth Day and chose to devote Friday to commemorate suffering. The Pope sat in silent contemplation and prayer upon arrival at a site where some of most tragic human suffering of modern European history happened.
Paris commemorates the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda 30 years ago with a message broadcast on the Eiffel Tower's first floor. IMAGES
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