The Holocaust Can Happen Again “Because it Deviated Not from Human Norms”
Another outstanding essay Padre Steve’s World. I agree that we risk repeating history in this country and abroad. Here, never before have we been in more danger than we are now under the alleged leadership of President Donald J. Trump of becoming an authoritarian dictatorship. We must be vigilant in order to make sure he is no permitted to take us even further down that road than he already has. – rjc
Friends of Padre Steve’s World,
The crimes of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime may seem like the happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, we would all like to believe that. However, they are only as far away as the next time. That is why we must continue to show them in their awful reality. Yehuda Bauer, a historian of the Holocaust whose family escaped from Czechoslovakia the day it was annexed by the Third Reich wrote:
“The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn’t. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.”
This is an eternal truth. The Red Chinese in Tibet, the Cambodian Killing Fields, the Serbians massacring Bosnians under the noses of Dutch Peacekeepers in Srebrenica…
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