More reflecting on the holocaust

After allowing the book to really sink in and thinking about how both it's author and the author of the book I am about to begin have died...I got to thinking...we already have people denying the holocaust, what happens when all of the survivors are gone? What are our children learning now in their history classes? I really don't remember learning much, if anything, about it. Is it because it is too horrific to teach? I think if I had learned the true horrors I would not have forgotten learning it. Was it just mentioned in passing when talking about the war? Did the numbers just seem to impossible to grasp?

It scares me to think of what could happen if the world forgets or even if those who deny it happened convince others it didn't.

I, like many others, think we (the US) get into conflicts that we shouldn't be involved in but how do we know what will evolve into something that we should stop. What is the magic number of people that it is ok to slaughter before we butt in? This is what makes me curious enough to learn more about why the world got involved, how they found out...today it is so easy to learn of atrocities committed elsewhere (and yet we still don't hear much about them because we are more concerned with Bieber drag racing).

It is just so unimaginable that so many people could be murdered and treated so horribly for so long. It is truly mind boggling. In this country we talk often about slavery, of which I also can't believe went on for so long without people realizing how wrong it was, but we don't talk about how we let so many people die during the Holocaust before intervening--what was the attitude of that era? Did we really think it not our place to get involved? And to make matters worse when we do refer to it, it is always about Hitler, not the victims. It really irritates me how casually he is compared to people we disagree with. I feel like it diminishes the reality of who he was and what he did. There will never be anyone comparable to him....unless we allow ourselves to deny or forget or diminish what he actually did.