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Soviet POWs, and in the fight against the civilian population, but in fact participated in these crimes, playing at times a supporting, at times a leading role. These were not isolated cases of 'abuse' or 'excesses'; they were activities based on decisions reached by top level military leaders or troop leaders on or behind the front lines.
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Wehrmacht had indeed led a war of annihilation and committed atrocities. The accusation of forged materials was found to be
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The fundamental statements made in the exhibition about the
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We greatly regret that we did not respond to a number of critics, whose objections have been shown to be correct, with due earnestness and that we did not decide to impose a moratorium at an earlier date. Nonetheless, we reiterate that the key statement of the exhibition – that the
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Germans and captioning of some of the images in the exhibition, the exhibition was heavily criticized by some historians such as Polish-born historian
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suspended the display, pending review of its content by a committee of historians. The review stated that contrary to Ungváry, only 20 out of 1400 pictures were found to be of
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