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Public Actions Cover the party magazine "Golden Dawn", dedicated to the 62nd anniversary of the Victory over Nazism.

In Greece, a country that survived the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust, there is no such thing as historical revisionism. Meanwhile, nostalgia for Hitler and for Nazism is felt in the party press of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. Back in the 60th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism in 2005, the eponymous magazine was published with an article on the title: “May 1945 - May 2005. We have nothing to celebrate.” The article lamented the defeat of the Nazis in World War II, “[the true] winner is a young fighter from the Hitler Youth who fell fighting in the ruined Berlin. A soldier of the Wehrmacht and SS troops fought against the forces of nature and the forces of the enemy.”

The Golden Dawn party and its leader Nikos Michaloliakos are known not only for their anti-Semitism, and longing for the Third Reich, but also denial of the Holocaust, which they express quite openly. In mid-May 2012 Mihaloliakos was interviewed by MEGA-TV, where he put the Holocaust in a row with crimes that could be considered normal for military operations. "Americans would have done the same if it had been them instead of Germany," - he said. He cited the example of German neo-Nazis from Dresden, which can definitely find arguments to lessen the extent of the Holocaust. The neo-Nazi term "Bombenholocaust", meaning “the Holocaust by bombs", is discussed here; it is used to describe the Nazi German attack of former allies of Dresden in February 1945.

During the interview Mihaloliakos also said: "What is Auschwitz? I've never been there! And what happened there? And have You been there?.. I have read many books that questioned the death of 6 million Jews. They say that the events of the Holocaust are greatly exaggerated. This is, indeed, a deliberate exaggeration, and many authors investigating the problem of fascism confirm this fact... There were no ovens. It's all lies. There were no gas chambers, either.”

On May 8, 2014 a member of parliament from “Golden Dawn” party Christos Pappas read out a text praising Hitler at the Parliamentary session, and stated that these were the “works for our youth”, adding that nationalism is “the world’s future”. After the arrest of Pappas in September 2013, it was found out that his house was a true museum of Nazism, and the politician loved to pose in a Nazi uniform during his youth.

In late May, the cries of "Heil Hitler!" have been repeatedly reported coming from "Golden Dawn" accompanied by the appropriate greetings in the parliament.

In July, during the"Golden Dawn's" distribution of food to the poor people the Nazi anthem "Horst Wessel" was reported playing.

LIn 2015 and 2016, cases of public heroization of Nazism in Greece were not recorded, which is connected to anti-extremism legislation reforms and a wave of convictions against the leaders of the Golden Dawn party.

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