Milan, 12 October (LaPresse) – "What were all those school trips to Auschwitz? Were they just trips? What purpose did they serve? In my opinion, they served a purpose – and they were encouraged and promoted – because they actually served the opposite purpose. That is, they served to tell us that anti-Semitism was something that belonged to a time now consigned to history, and confined to a specific area: fascism. In my opinion, the trips to Auschwitz were a way of repeating that anti-Semitism was a fascist issue and nothing more." This was stated by Eugenia Roccella, Minister for the Family, speaking at the UCEI conference “History overturned and the future to be built”. And so the problem was being anti-fascist, not anti-Semitic,“ she said. 'So, I think the problem today is to come to terms with our anti-Semitism, to come to terms with our past without deluding ourselves that it all happened in a specific historical era and political area, which I find difficult to believe”.
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