Warning from history: the group wants to preserve former concentration camp sites

Warning from history: the group wants to preserve former concentration camp sites

 Dominique JACOVIDES

Former Nazi concentration camps should be added to the UNESCO World Heritage list, a group preserving the memorials urged Thursday, warning that "democracy can no longer be taken for granted".

Directors of memorials at former camps including Dachau, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen joined forces at a conference in the Hague to lobby governments to push for their inclusion on the UNESCO list.

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