Prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by soldiers of the red Army and the Russian Federation this day is of great importance, said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
" Auschwitz was liberated by the red Army. I'm sure this day for the Russian Federation is of great importance, "said the Minister in an interview to the tabloid Bild, published on Sunday, RIA" Novosti ". According to Steinmeier, January 27, for Germany it is a day of shame and disgrace." Germany recognizes its historical responsibility for the Holocaust and the iniquity of the Nazis regarding million people in Poland, in the former Soviet Union and wherever it is, " said the Minister. on 21 January, the Polish foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna on Polish radio said that the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated most importantly Ukrainians. In response to this, the MPs of the state Duma expressed harsh criticism of the Polish Minister. And the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation said that his words were illiterate and are a mockery of history. Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century called blasphemous and cynical statements Polish colleagues.


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