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UNBELIEVABLE: Museums rethink how the holocaust should be shown | History Defined

Change of tone: the new Holocaust rooms at the Memorial de Caen museum in northern France (Credit: AFP)

Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month.

Shocking images of the mass killings of Jews were "used massively at the end of World War II to show the violence of the Nazis," historian Tal Bruttmann, a specialist on the Holocaust, told AFP.

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