contest

Alderneyは前に取り上げたJack Higgins原作の映画で出てきました。

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/nazi-atrocities-jews-prisoners-war-alderney-channel-island-uk
内容は難しくないけど、習得できていない単語・表現多数。

基本単語　いい加減覚えろな単語だらけ
barbarity - Nazi barbarity
contest - the number of victims has been contested
[Collins] If you contest a statement or decision, you object to it formally because you think it is wrong or unreasonable.
flee persecution - father fled Nazi persecution in Germany
fromをつけるケースとそうじゃない使い分けがよくわからない。日本語の発想だとfromをつけたくなる。
[Collins] refugees who have fled from wars, famine and persecution / refugees fleeing persecution or torture.
envoy - he UK’s Holocaust envoy Lord PicklesってEric Picklesのこと？
[quote]
[..]I thought it sensible for everyone to put the facts on the table, for it all to be transparent and for the deliberations to be in the open. It seemed pointless people shouting across at each other.[..]
[quote]
population - the British population of Alderney was evacuated
round up
run into - the numbers killed by the Nazis did not run into thousands
perish
appalling - appallingly
vindicate

地理語・歴史語・ナチ語
British crown dependency
Nazi concentration camps
Atlantic Wall
Vernichtung durch Arbeit - extermination through labour　これをやられているような気がする
Drancy transit camp

単語を引くのに時間がかかる。けど、単語・表現を覚えるにはこれしかないと思う。

それにしても。いまだに人数が出せないなんてー。