This year marks the 70th anniversary since the end of World War II. For slightly over half a century since 1945, the Western hemisphere seemed to be a relatively safe and peaceful place – until the 9/11/2001 attack by Muslim extremists took place in New York.
Today, we have a theocratic country called Iran, who teaches its citizens, starting with when they are small children, to chant “Death to America. Death to Israel.” And Iran appears to be intent on developing nuclear weapons in order to make its stated goal become reality.
Today, many of those who never grew up with evil choose to see only the good in people. When growing up, I saw evil – albeit in a much smaller scale. Here is a reminder of what a collective evil – humans who go along with evil, who choose not to see the evil for what it is, who choose not to stand up to evil – is capable of doing: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/memory-of-the-camps/
The documentary uses films that were shot 70 years ago, this month, as the various concentration camps were being liberated. They focus solely on the atrocities committed by the Nazis. It does not even include the atrocities committed by the Japanese military.
As they say, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Need I say more?
