France’s education minister announced the government would furnish all of the nation’s high schools with a DVD version of the celebrated Holocaust documentary “Shoah.” Minister of Education Jack Lang told reporters that the distribution of the film was part of a campaign to revive the memory of the Holocaust in the name of “fighting certain forms of negationism,” another term for Holocaust denial.
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