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Imperial War Museums gallery to question way Holocaust understood

Exhibition to challenge narrative that genocide happened in the shadows


A new Imperial War Museums gallery will challenge visitors to “beware the Holocaust because you could have been a perpetrator”.

The £30m gallery, which will be the first in the world to be integrated with a second world war gallery when it opens in London, seeks to re-examine the narrative of the genocide of millions of Jews and others who are being commemorated on Wednesday on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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