The world never learns

The world will never learn its lesson about WWII. I think mostly because no one understands what the lesson is and what was made wrong.

Why is it important that we learn about WWII? Is it because the cruelty that took place in Nazi Germany and the socialist states? Well Partly yes.

What happened during the Second World War? If you ask that question to someone they will probably say: A lot of Jews where killed.

That is true. A lot of Jews where killed, about six million of them, along with an additional five million consisting of Political prisoners, gays, mentally ill, gypsies, Russian prisoners of war and many more.

That is horrible; to even beginning to understand how one could go trough with it is beyond me. But that is not what’s important. What’s important is how the world reacted: It didn’t do anything. Jews that fled to the US where denied entry and sent back, Jews that fled to allied countries where denied entry. No one cared, no one bothered. THAT is why we must remember the holocaust and that is a lesson that we obviously haven’t leaned.

Rwanda, Jugoslavia, Kosovo, Darfur

Do we know?

Yes we do.

Do we care?

Well, it is horrible… sort of.

Do we do anything to stop it?

Well… no.

Have we learned from WWII?

No

Will genocides continue until we take responsibility for the world?

Yes.

As a Jew I urge all to remember WWII. We do, we will never be healed from that scar. Memories are fresh in those, who still live, who survived the camps.

Denying it is to flee responsibility. Telling your selves that it was so long ago is to flee from responsibility. Closing your eyes and whishing it all away is to flee from responsibility.