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Tue 03 Mar 2007The fashionable rising tide of homophobia in EuropeTeen Times:In a darkened hallway in one of the many identical buildings in the Auschwitz concentration camp, row upon of row of faces stare blankly at visitors. For many of them, this is their final image - heads shaven, faces sallowed, sporting the blue and white stripes of their uniform.Their only crime was being Jewish, homosexual, Polish or falling within some other category the Third Reich deemed undesirable. Yet last year, just a few hundred kilometres away in the Polish capital Warsaw, a gay-rights march was attacked by protesters shouting: "Euthanasia for gays, concentration camps for lesbians."