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Thread #77802   Message #1422960
Posted By: GUEST,The Shambles
28-Feb-05 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: Auschwitz and other mass murder
Subject: RE: Auschwitz and other mass murder
Don't fear the Hitler of yesterday. He's dead and gone. Fear the little rising Hitlers of today. They hide behind the cloak of righteousness and respectability. They are leading other countries now...not Germany. They don't use a swastika. They have other sacred symbols with which to sanction their attacks upon others. One day their symbols may be seen as people now see the swastika.

This is exactly why all the details of this particular case (and indeed all of the others) are so important for us all to remember and why many are quite happy for us to forget). Not as dusty history but as daily warnings.

The choices we may (just) have the freedom to make today - may not seem to be all that important. However, making a few of them them now in our daily lives - may ensure that we never have to make some of the terrible choices that still haunt those few - who manage somehow to at least live through these horrors. And who provide us with the evidence we can and must still learn from.