History of Sorts

The Holocaust is a word everyone knows the meaning of, yet no one understands.

No one understands why it happened, at least not really. People will say it is because of the political ideology of a few, who wanted to eradicate all of those who they deemed undesirable.

However, it is not that easy, Throughout history there have been many different political ideologies and dictatorships and even though many of these were brutal and evil, they hardly ever entailed the wholesale slaughter of millions, and  I do apologize for the word ‘wholesale’ but that’s really what it was, a ‘business’ transaction.

Millions were killed as if it was another day in the office and that’s how it was sold to mainly the Germans and Austrians but also other European nations.

The Jews, LGBT, Roma, Sinti, Disabled and others were labelled non-human. They were considered a blight on humanity and a costly one. Thfawaey needed to be removed, they were a burden on the regular tax-paying working man and woman. Even education was suffering because of them. They were not pure and tainted a pure race. For mankind to survive these impurities needed to be destroyed.

People trusted their government because IT had brought them prosperity, so the ordinary citizen looked away because they knew it was for the ‘best’.

Nowadays we know better, but we don’t. Not really. New research has shown that  many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened — and this lack of knowledge is more pronounced among millennials, whom the survey defined as people ages 18 to 34. “Never Forget” means little to them. It  is easy for the older generation, and I include myself in this. to judge and be disgusted by this lack of this knowledge, but here is the thing. These millennials are our children, nieces our nephews. It is we who failed to instil this knowledge, unwittingly so. We relied on the various education systems to do that job for us, not realizing late 20th- and early 21st-century education was different from our education. The focus is now more on absorbing data there was no need for critical thinking. But it’s not too late we can still educate. The Holocaust must never ever happen again.

Next time we say or write “Never Again,” let us not say it as a slogan but as a commitment, if not for us then for the millions who died. Or for those who still wake up every night and see the faces of their loved ones, it’s the least we can do.

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