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[quote=Anonymous]Interesitng thread. A few select comments:

[b]1. Blame/feelings of revenge/forgiveness[/b]

I understand fully if people who have been affected personally by the Holocaust - suffered or lost family members - cannot forgive. This is asking too much. I also understand it for the second generation, whose parents have been affected, as most people identify with their parents and their suffering.

When blame and revenge remain predominant sentiments in the third generation and beyond though, things get difficult. The world needs to be able to move on, even from horrors like the Holocaust.

[b]2. Was the holocaust a genuinely German thing[/b]

I would want to think "no" and side with those who say that it is primarily circumstance that makes mass murderers.  Germany was humilated by military defeat in WWI, hyperinflation and the great depression, and turned to a charasmatic dictator who turned out to be extraordinaly evil. The task is to prevent situations where people are despearate enough that they would be drawn to charismatic dictators.

But it remains a question why, say, the US turned to FDR rather than a dictator, even though it was as badly affected by the great depression as Germany.

[b]3. Jews and German/Palestinians and Israel[/b]

Not sure why a discussion about the first issue almost always turns into a discusson of the second. As if the history of Israel/Palestine would in any way reduce the evil of the holocaust or "put it into perspective". It doesn't. [/quote]

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