The Globe and Mail: 'Will the world ever learn?': "In New York yesterday, author Elie Wiesel, one of a dwindling number of survivors of the Nazi death camps, was delivering the first major speech the United Nations had ever agreed to hear in commemoration of the deaths of six million Jews. His hopeful words were tempered by what he described as 'the silence and indifference of the world' through most of the past 60 years.

'But the question is,' he concluded, 'will the world ever learn?'

At about the same moment, in the German city of Dresden, a dozen members of the far-right NPD party stormed out of the state legislature. They were refusing to recognize a moment of silence that was being held to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945.

As that was taking place, 20 parliamentarians from right-wing and Communist parties in Russia were issuing a press release calling for 'the prohibition in our country of all religious and ethnic Jewish organizations,' on the grounds that Jews are unpatriotic and responsible for a number of social ills, including anti-Semitism.

The world, it seemed, has not entirely learned."

(Via Google News.)