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I thought the whole POINT of "never forget" is precisely that human beings committed such atrocities, and it follows that humans are capable of the same or similar acts in the future.
The Nazis are not even unique in committing sadistic and genocidal acts, they just happened to be very efficient in doing so and have done so in the "modern" era where there can exist photographic and other precise documentation of their deeds, as well as some existing survivors. We just have some Goya paintings and such for the Inquisition...
One of the most chilling things about Nazism is precisely the fact that so many ordinary German people who are no different from you and I got swept up in and went along with the whole thing.
The potential for evil that resides within every ordinary person was tapped in a most efficient manner by that government, by those leaders.
I thought the whole point of "never forgetting" is so that if we recognize the signs of such a thing, such a movement beginning to occur or gain power again that perhaps it could be arrested, killed in its infancy.
If the Nazi era was some unique set of crimes committed by supernaturally and uniquely evil beings the like of who could never exist again, it would sure be a lot less important to remember...
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