'The darker parts of our past, such as the Civil War, slavery, the wholesale genocide of Native Americans, and, most recently, Japanese Internment camps, are either forgotten about entirely or sugarcoated.' —JenAshleyWright
That’s not to say the Holocaust was not one of history’s worst atrocities. It was. But Germany is not unique in having concentration camps. They are however, much better than most about educating their citizenry about exactly how horrific those camps were, and how easily normal people can accept them. In Germany, education about the holocaust and Germany’s awful roleand “Germans still seem to grapple almost eagerly with their own historic guilt and shame.
For this reason, you will not, for instance, find a great number of monuments to history’s losers in Germany. There aren’t statues of Rommel and monuments to fallen Nazi soldiers, unlike in the U.S. where there are monuments to Confederate generals.
75 years ago: young Americans braved Nazi fire on beaches to liberate a continent and defend Constitutional rights. Today: young Americans whine about people making mean jokes about them on YouTube and demand censorship.
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