Poland has asked the United Nations to change the title of the Auschwitz concentration camp to remind visitors that it was built and run by Nazi Germany.In a sign of acute historic sensitivities over the camp, where 1 million Jews died, Warsaw wants to change its official name to Former Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Polish government made the request to Unesco, which listed Auschwitz as a world heritage site in 1979, after newspapers referred to the camp as Polish during the coverage of the 60th anniversary of its liberation. In a leading article marking Holocaust Memorial Day in January last year the Guardian mistakenly referred to "Polish gas chambers and crematoria". ...
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