Why we’re forgetting the Holocaust

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Arkansan said:
Mass murder is happening in our own society. What’s very unlikely is that Nazis will take over and start killing the Jews again.
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It’s not just Nazi’s that commit mass-murder. Most of the great mass-murders were committed by Marxists. I wouldn’t write off the possibility that Marxists could take over and start killing people. After all, there are open Communists on city councils in places like Seattle.
 
It is possible to have a discussion on mass shootings, why they happen, and how to prevent them without disseminating the names and images of the shooters. Some smaller publications have already pledged to stop publishing the names and pictures to not feed copy cats.

Personally, I think we need to start talking about the atrocities committed by Marxists and other groups in addition to the Holocaust. The only reason we haven’t been doing that as much is because history is written by the winners: the Nazis lost and because Leftists have really good PR.
 
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Perhaps because it was an atrocity of the gravest kind, not solely because of the huge scope of the killings, torture, and technology involved, nor only because it wiped out a large portion of Jews in Western Europe, but also because it planned to exterminate other “undesirables.” Thus it serves as a grim moral lesson for future generations of historians, psychologists, government leaders, military, and even average people, by revealing the capability of mankind to do evil, given the proper circumstances…
 
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Arkansan said:
Could you please explain how the Holocaust remembrances and memorials to the murdered have taken on quasi-religious status?

The fact that people think they “need to be remembered” as a moral lesson to humanity, unlike any other event in secular history (but like the events of religious history, e.g. original sin, the Crucifixion).
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Wow. Yeah, they TOTALLY need to be remembered. We have things like “Megan’s Law” because Megan needs to be remembered and yes, your right it is a moral lesson. That doesn’t mean people are “worshiping” Megan. We have monuments for people who lost or sacrificed their lives, and no oneis calling that quasi-religious
 
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Megan’s Law was passed to make children safer, not to make Megan’s individual story known.

We have statues of heroes who’ve given their lives for a noble purpose, we don’t remember them primarily as victims but as people who did something worth remembering.
 
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It wasn’t actually called that.

People commonly referred to it as such because what happened to her was the impetus.
 
Arkansan said:
People commonly referred to it as such because what happened to her was the impetus.
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Exactly. People have memorialized her and what happened to her as a result of society ignoring what was going on around them. People put a human face on it.
 
That was done in order to get the law passed.

70 years from now, no one will care if anyone knows what happened to her.
 
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70 years from now, no one will care if anyone knows what happened to her.
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And you feel the same way about the millions who were killed in German death camps don’t you? It is this type of thinking that fully explains and justifies why maintaining these Holocaust memorials is so very important. Thank you for your help and (name removed by moderator)ut.
 
Idk why some people history is useless. I’m not sure what irritates them about learning about the past. I don’t think the extermination of Jews should be forgotten. What’s the point in preserving the holy Land or observing any holiday? A lot of culture is tied to history. Jesus died thousands of years ago, why remember him? Why i
 
Since Holocaust survivors were victims, they don’t deserve be memorialized? I’m not sure why you think it is relevant or should be forgotten. The holocaust was only 70 to 80 years ago.
 
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Why do you think memorializing historical events or places is pointless? Why keep the Bible? It’s an outdated ancient book about people who may or may not have even existed. Why does the Bible include the old testament? Isn’t that irrelevant too? The most important is the life of Christ. Why preserve the Vatican or the Holy Land?
 
Without the Holocaust St. Kobe and St. Edith Stein would never have been able to give us such wonderful examples of Holiness.

God can make even greater good come out of great evil.

The Holocaust needs to be remembered
 
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And not all were killed in Poland. There were camps in Germany too.
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Slave labour camps like Dachau and Buchenwald, where the inmates were worked and starved to death for the most part. The extermination camps were all in Poland, though. Places like Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, ect.
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Thank you. I failed to make the distinction.
 
I think the Holocaust should be remembered because of orchestrated slaughter of six million Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. The fact that a leader could get away with that is crazy
 
The six million figure was Jews alone. Last time I checked, the total count was 11 million. And let’s not forget it all begun with exterminating the disabled in Germany.
 
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