"A thousand years will pass, and still this guilt of Germany will not have been erased."
 |
| Angela Merkel at the inauguration of the Roma Holocaust Memorial. |
Hans Frank, the slayer of the Poles, said this comment during the Nuremberg Trial. In 2008, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany said, “the mass murder of 6 million Jews, carried out in the name of Germany, has brought indescribable suffering to the Jewish people, Europe and the entire world.” She also goes on to say that Germans are filled with shame for what they, as a nation, did to the Jewish people of Germany and Europe. While this tragedy should never be forgotten, perpetual guilt does not allow individuals or groups to grow and evolve as a culture. The Germans and the Jewish people around the World should truly make peace with the event and begin to grow together.
Furthermore, the world lost many great thinkers and business men who were of Jewish descent or other groups of people considered to be inferior. To this day we will never know how many geniuses like Albert Einstein, a Jewish man who escaped Europe, or great business leaders could have been lost, all of that potential that was lost forever.
 |
| Main Germany Holocaust Memorial outside of Berlin |
No comments:
Post a Comment