http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-04-13T103151Z_01_L13115790_RTRUKOC_0_UK-POLAND-AUSCHWITZ.xmlWARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is trying to change the name of Auschwitz concentration camp to emphasise that Nazi Germans, not Poles, were responsible for the most murderous centre of the Holocaust.
The government has asked the United Nations to change the name of its World Heritage site from "Auschwitz Concentration Camp" to "the Former Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz", despite criticism of the move by some Jewish groups. snip
Maram Stern from World Jewish Congress accused Warsaw of seeking "to redefine history by changing the (Auschwitz) name", comments which stirred uproar in Poland.
"Although the camp had been built and run by Nazi Germany, everyone in the area had known about its existence and workers were recruited from the Polish population in the neighbouring village," Stern said in a statement.
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