4. How was the holocaust defused? DETAILS!
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On October 18th 1941, a train steamed out of Grunewald station in western Berlin. On board were around 1,000 people classified by the Nazis as Jews, who in the official jargon were being "deported" or "resettled", the Berliner Morgenpost reports.
This was the first of 184 trains that would depart from the German capital over the next four years, transporting around 55,000 Jews to Theresienstadt and other concentration camps and ghettos. The majority didn't survive the war.
Failing to 'cope with the past'
The Holocaust – originating from the Greek words meaning "whole" and "burnt" – was the persecution and murder of more than six million Jews and others from oppressed minorities in Europe between 1941 and 1945.
Although a large proportion of the murders were committed outside of the borders of contemporary Germany - the most infamous camp, Auschwitz, for example, now lies in Poland - Germany has a particular responsibility to ensure that the genocide is not forgotten.
After the Second World War and up until 1990, Germany was divided into the FRG (West Germany) and the Soviet-allied GDR (East Germany), and both states struggled to come to terms with the horrors of the past at a national level.
The term Vergangenheitsbewältigung, which literally translates as "coping with the past", has become a key concept in post-1945 German culture, and describes the way in which Germans discuss and confront their history.
The former Cold War communist state of East Germany did not accept culpability for the Nazi past, stating that it was instead a result of Western capitalism. West Germany, although confronting the past more directly, also struggled with the process of denazification and memorialisation.
Since reunification in 1990, much more has been done by Germany to remember the atrocities of the 1940s. It is noticeable that the majority of the memorials in Berlin have only emerged over the last 25 years.