What were human rights?

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The day before yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the entry into force of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies. One of the most important elements of the traumatic legacy of the Second World War and the will of nations not to allow a return to barbarism was the institutionalization of human rights.

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