What lessons does the Holocaust have for people today?
I think that the main lesson that the Holocaust should teach us is that we must not be complacent when governments start to treat groups within their country badly. I think one of the major reasons that the Holocaust was able to happen is that other governments did not really care wha the Germans were doing to Jews before WWII. It was partly anti-Semitism, I think. It was also partly that no one could have imagined that the anti-Jewish laws would lead to mass murder. So I think what we need to learn is that we can’t say “oh, that’s bad, but surely nothing more will come of it.” We have to be aware that small steps towards oppression can lead to unimaginably horrible atrocities.
