Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the liberation of the Nazi Death Camp, Auschwitz, 76 years ago.
Yesterday was Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the liberation of the Nazi Death Camp, Auschwitz, 76 years ago. Why should we remember the Holocaust? Many books have been published on this topic in addition to my own, but in short, here are a few very important reasons why, as a Holocaust historian, I think it needs to be remembered. First, genocide and mass murder are still happening. When people say, “Never Again!” they should mean it. When genocide was going on in Bosnia from 1994 to 1995 with the world’s knowledge, it took the United States getting involved to stop it. One would think that Germany, with its cries of Nie Wieder! (never again), would have sent military units to stop it, but they DID NOTHING. Cowards. Second, when I hammer Germany, I also need to hammer us, the United States of America. We should have acted far earlier when Serbian Orthodox Christians were slaughtering Bosnian Muslims. The Muslim world needs to know that we bombed Serbian Christians...