Has the Holacaust faded into history? It would seem so.

Ralphy1

Ralphy1

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Last week was the Holacaust remembrance week but it was little noted except by survivors and their families. And for those not directly effected most of us were children or not born yet, so like all great events it truly is disappearing into history. Also, mankind continues to attack itself with terrible regularity, though perhaps not in such awful numbers...
 

It was noted here in the UK, we had a whole week of remembering Holocaust events and TV programmes...

I realise we can't live in the past...but history has a horrible predictable way of repeating itself...so lest we forget..then IMO the atrocities that happened not only to the Jewish, the gypsies, the disabled and the non whites..but to those who were incarcerated in the notorious Japanese camps during WW2...should never be forgotten
 
I must echo what Holly has just said, we have had so many programmes on the tv and radio over the last week or so, there are also church services around the country honouring the dead from this terrible Nazi atrocity. Although it's harrowing, nobody must forget what happened to innocent Jewish people [and those considered lesser beings.]In fact it's so awful that it's hard to imagine it happened in the middle of the 20th century, but it did.
 

I noticed the same with 12/7. I have cable TV with about a zillion channels available and not one showed the movie, "Tora, Tora, Tora." I was really looking forward to it again, like I do every year. It's sort of like watching, "It's A Wonderful Life" on Christmas Eve.
 
it seems that Europe is heading again into the same direction which allowed the Holacaust to happen. Serious economic problems have caused right wing parties to come to the fore and to want the deportation of immigrants...
 
And yet there may well be a swing to the left in many EU countries as a result of the austerity measures.The Greek party just elected is very leftist.
 
I think the holocaust has faded into history. Partly because of time, a lot of other history since and ignorance. If you listen to the people in news with various religions and cults you would think they are the only victims ever. Even with all the other stuff going on today to look at the camps and pictures of bodieS this is still one of the biggest tragedies in history.

I brought this up earlier but I notice a lot of bar code tattoos now a days by young people in particular. If they had a thorough lesson on the holocaust they would've known people were branded with a numbered tattoo like they were somebody's property. This is a big tell here. Throw in other religions and causes fighting for priority a lot of World War II is gone.

I had to explain exactly to someone in their 40s recently how powerful Japan was at the beginning of World War II and they were like that's ancient history, it doesn't matter now. They also said the US was the most powerful nation ever and their war history/knowledge basically starts at Gulf War I.
 
Not forgotten at all and also noted more recently as in programming in several series the past weeks as mentioned by a few others. Only some keep their heads buried in the sand.
 
There's has been shows on TV about it, it's not forgotten for those who want to remember. I don't think events like this will ever disappear in history Ralphy.
 
As has been said, not forgotten over here, though anti-Semitism is increasing again.

Our local schools send parties to Auschwitz every year, as they do the First World War battlefields.
 
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Who was it that said "those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it"? I spent a long time in Germany (about 9 years as military dependent) and went to many of the concentration camp memorials. The one that stands out in my memory is Dachau -- if any place on the faceof the earth is haunted, that place is it. I came away profoundly moved, sorrowed, and yes, haunted. The horrors that took place there, and other camps, should never be forgotten or minimized, nor should the faces of the millions of those who were tortured and exterminated by the Nazi machine.
 

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