Before them and the world would pass a procession of witnesses to Nazi crimes.
Helped by social media and easier communication across the globe, we can make sure that the world we pass on to our children and grandchildren is safe, equitable, prosperous and sustainable.
And if we fail to meet that responsibility, who would take our place, and what kind of world would we pass on?
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With Klaus Kroll claiming third, Austria became the first country to pass 500 World Cup podiums in any discipline, men or women.
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Blizzard had an additional 1.2 million gamers who received a free copy of the game for subscribing to the World of Warcraft Annual Pass.
At some point next year, probably during the month of October, the world human population will pass the 6 billion mark for the first time.
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He had imagined himself as a boy winning the World Series, throwing the perfect pass, saving his favorite teachers from mortal peril.
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For millions of people, the body seems to have become a vehicle through which experiences pass from the outside world into a status update.
Earlier, the 192 member states of the World Health Organisation voted unanimously to pass the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the first international treaty to clamp down on tobacco consumption.
When advised by his doctors to take a break from his cares as one of the richest men in America, he astonished the rest of polite society by taking a pass on the suggested world cruise and came to Alaska, of all places, instead.
Well, Santa is probably one of the only people in the world that has his own Secret Service pass.
In the Albula Valley the track spirals to gain height, and around the austere grandeur of the Bernina Pass becomes one of the world's steepest narrow-gauge railways.
And assurances from the World Health Organisation that only live birds can pass on the illness will cut little ice.
And that's true even if everyone knows you're the fastest man in the world, if you're the reigning Olympic champion, if you hold the world record - nothing gets you a free pass to Beijing.
However, the home crowd's relief was shortlived as Ronaldo beat the offside trip to gather Mesut Ozil's fine pass down the right, and the world's most expensive player netted his 54th goal this season from an acute angle.
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Bharti and others are planning undersea cables, which could turn the trickle of data that can now pass between India and the rest of the world into a torrent.
So convinced were the organisers of Mobile World Congress that they encouraged visitors to get an NFC pass for speedier entry to an event where security involves showing photo ID.
This understanding may stretch thin if players, who prepaid for GW2 in order to spend this weekend exploring the updated world of Tyria, cannot log in as the hours pass.
As a United States Senator, he reached across the aisle to pass groundbreaking lobbying reform, lock up the world's most dangerous weapons, and bring transparency to government by putting federal spending online.
From the 1960s until the 1980s, the Mountain Pass mine in California made the US the world leader in rare earth production, but it was later closed, largely due to competition with the elements imported from China.
Other missteps include a failure to pass the measures needed to get Ukraine into the World Trade Organisation.
Idaho Republican Larry Craig, a prominent gun rights advocate and a board member of the National Rifle Association, said Congress can't just pass a law and reassure the Million Moms the world will be a better place.
While the Sudanese government and the rebels continue to make excuse after excuse, the world powers on the Security Council have at least managed to pass a resolution that puts more pressure on the regime in Khartoum to stop the fighting.
Today, half the world's container trade, and much of its oil, pass within 5km of Aden, but northern rule, and the country's fierce protection of its independence, have turned the port into a backwater.
In Pass Christian, Miller created what he believes to be the world's largest eagle wood carving, at 25 feet tall.
But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.
Maximum delays of more than three hours were predicted for some flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by the number of passengers who pass through it.
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