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MP Andrew Pelling and Croydon students visit Auschwitz

3:10pm Friday 30th October 2009

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MP Andrew Pelling visited Auschwitz with students from Croydon with the Holocaust Education trust last week.

The one-day trip was designed to encourage the students to think about the 1.1million people put to death in the camp and consider what they experienced.

Mr Pelling said: “Auschwitz-Birkenau stands as a monument to the human capacity to both hate and endure.

"The instruments of torture and extermination in part remain, but sixty-four years of silent vigil testify that however perfunctory the act of murder was rendered by a well drilled process, the fact is that human beings were responsible for the murder of other human beings.

"There is no such thing as a faceless victim or an identikit guard.

“It gave the students the opportunity to contextualise the historical consequences of far-right political thought with the policies of hate espoused by the BNP.

“It is of great encouragement that so many of the students were motivated to engage with politics by the horror of such attitudes.”

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Welsh Dragon 7, East says...
1:35pm Sat 31 Oct 09

Is Pelling going to comment about labour's modern day "hate" campaign in invading Iraq and Afghanistan and rounding up men and women into prison camps where they were abused and tortured by coalition forces ? err thought not ...... or what about the Conservatives who criticised the labour regime for not invading Iraq earlier ? weapons of mass destruction was a wicked fabrication to invade these countries and pelling should remember attacking the Bnp might sound clever if the Uk hadnt bombed the life out of iraq killing thousands ......... but seeing as pelling's lot are responsible in supporting modern wars he ought to hang his head in shame in what's happening now instead of pretending the on-going wars in Iraq and afghanistan do not matter !!!

boogeyondown, says...
7:35pm Sun 1 Nov 09

well said welshdragon//

wasn't this the mp who was chucked out of his own tory party???????//

he should stop rubbishing other political party's and trying to stir up trouble with his pc projects all paid for by the tax payers//


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