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Germany, where it is illegal for teachers to delete the Holocaust from their history curricula,
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
George Santayana’s immortal warning in mind: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It was later determined that Japanese treatment of their POWs surpassed in brutality even that of the Nazis. Only one in twenty-five American POWs died under Nazi captivity, in contrast to one in three under the Japanese.
It has often been suggested that those with the least power are often the most sadistic if given the power of life and death over people even lower on the pecking order,
there is yet a third lesson to be learned, one that is perhaps the most distressing of all. It lies in the frightening ease with which the mind can accept genocide, turning us all into passive spectators to the unthinkable.
Apparently some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided only that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.
