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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
  Past - omnipresent.

Today the Holocaust memorial opened in Berlin. It is a memory set in concrete, a somber monument against the forgetful mind of generations to come. But what exactly shouldn't we be forgetting?

The war took more lives than we can imagine. It was an unthinkable source of brutality, devastation and cruelty. Foreigners, political enemies, hostages and others were mistreated or murdered. Some died of starvation or sickness. All of it was done in the name of an ideology that now appears grotesque and absurd.

Some would throw in that the Germans weren't the only ones. That Stalin and his regime were in no way lacking in cruelty, that the Turks obviously committed genocide on the Armeniens and that Japan brought pure terror to China.

But that is not what the Holocaust memorial is about. For the Holocaust was not only about the murdering of Jews. It meant the total annihilation of all European Jews, men, women, children. The goal was to eradicate their very existence. Never before has a country decided to do anything similar, determined to use all power of the state to achieve it. It is an inhuman comcept, unique in history. And it should never be forgotten.

The Germans do well to remember this dark part of their history. For a while Germany had been the face of evil. It will never get easier to admit that, the feeling of shame will never leave, and it shouldn't. It is part of what made us who we are today. We were as low as we could possibly go, we were Hell itself. Let us never forget what we learned.

History must never repeat itself.  15:04


Sunday, May 08, 2005
  The war's end.

Today 60 years ago the most brutal and inhuman war in the history of mankind ended. Approximately 60 million people had lost their lives. Countless cities had been destroyed. An entire people was almost eradicated.

Until today the scars are visible. Some may be forever. Let us hope that it was the last war.  23:23