BEFORE the Iron Curtain came down, my brother and I holidayed in
East Germany. While we were there, we visited Buchenwald
concentration camp. Little did we know that we were starting a
trend. It is called "genocide tourism".
One of my abiding memories of the recent European football
tournament was the visit of the English team to Auschwitz. The
experience had a profound effect on Wayne Rooney. "It's hard to
understand," he said. "I am a parent, and it's tough to see what
happened ...
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