Austria Donates To Auschwitz

From Yahoo News:
"Austria donates $8 million to Auschwitz fund"

Austria's parliament has authorized a donation of €6 million ($8 million) toward helping to renovate a memorial to Holocaust victims who died at Auschwitz. The death camp in Poland was the most infamous of the string of death camps set up by Germany's Nazis. More than 1 million people, most of the Jews, died there, the majority in gas chambers. Many Austrians supported Hitler and some of the Nazi dictator's key associates were Austrians. The Austrian donation is part of a target of €120 million ($160.5 million) earmarked internationally to maintain the site. Germany, about 10 times Austria's size, has agreed to contribute €60 million ($80.26 million).

^ In the past few years Austria has moved away from claiming they were the first victims of Hitler to finally admitting they were actively involved with the Nazis. The fact that most of the Austrian Nazis were known to be worse than the German Nazis shows the commitment. It is good that Austria is going to donate money to help preserve the Nazi crimes at Auschwitz. ^

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