Italy has special responsibility to remember Holocaust, envoy says
In 2000 Italy became one of the first countries to establish January 27, the date of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, as a national day of remembrance.
King Victor Emanuel III, (R) Adolf Hitler (C) and Benito Mussolini (L) watch fascist troops march past from a balcony in central Rome in this 1941 television file footage(photo credit: REUTERS)BySAM SOKOL