CEP in the News

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Januar 28, 2025

“... On Sunday, coincidentally, I was among the first journalists allowed inside the house since it was taken over by the International Counter-Extremism Project, led by Mark Wallace, the former US ambassador to the United Nations. Returning from...

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Januar 28, 2025

"Over the past few years, an American non-profit organisation called the Counter Extremism Project has been negotiating with its Polish owner. In 2024, it was finally able to complete the purchase to open it to the public. The project has the support...

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Januar 28, 2025

CEP Senior Advisor Ian Acheson writes: "How do you create a low-trust society? One way to do so is to have an administrative class which seems to treat the views of ordinary people with contempt. Today’s news of a leaked Home Office report on counter...

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Januar 27, 2025

"As part of the anniversary events, the house where the Nazi commandant of Auschwitz lived with his family — which was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie “The Zone of Interest” — opened to visitors for the first time on Monday following its sale...

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Januar 27, 2025

"Acquired by the US-based Counter Extremism Project (CEP), the villa at 88 Legionow Street will soon reopen as the Auschwitz Center on Hate, Extremism, and Radicalization."

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Januar 27, 2025

"Joshua Fisher-Birch of the Counter Extremism Project told The Guardian, "These groups see the next four years as a mix of positives and negatives but overall, as an opportunity to enlarge their movement. Extreme-right groups are focusing on mass...

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Januar 27, 2025

"Before Monday's ceremony, Trudeau visited House 88, the former home of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolph Höss. The windows of the house — including one in the room where Höss's children slept — look onto the grounds of the death camp. The house was...

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Januar 27, 2025

"Also on Monday, the former home of Auschwitz’s Nazi leader, Rudolf Höss, opened to the public. The house, which was featured in the film The Zone of Interest, is adjacent to the former death camp. It was purchased by the Counter Extremism Project...

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Januar 27, 2025

"The house, once a luxurious “paradise” where the longest-serving commandant of Auschwitz lived from 1940 to 1944, is being converted into a research center fighting against antisemitism and extremism, and operated by the non-profit organization...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

Fact:

On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility. 

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