Germany’s main Jewish group opposes a proposed law that equates suffering at Nazi hands to suffering at Communist hands. The Central Council of Jews in Germany was joined by directors of Holocaust memorials and several Jewish and gypsy organizations in announcing Monday their withdrawal from a memorial foundation in the former East German state of Saxony in protest against what they called the relativization of history.
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