Russia-Poland feud over history clouds Auschwitz anniversary
(World News Russia)

Over the next week, world leaders will gather twice to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious of Nazi Germany´s death camps. That there will be two competing ceremonies - one in Jerusalem on Thursday and the other at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland on Jan. 27 - underlines how politically charged World War II remains as nationalist governments in Russia and Poland seek to use their own interpretation of the past for contemporary political gain. Leaders at both sites, joined by elderly survivors, will pay tribute to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Yet the commemorations risk being overshadowed by a bitter dispute between Poland -...