“The past is never dead. It isn’t even in the past.” William Faulkner
Looking back on World War II, the Nazis, and the genocide doesn’t feel incredibly politicized to me. I know they’re out there, but I have never personally met a Holocaust denier. I don’t know anyone who flies a Nazi flag or tries to justify the party’s actions. Seventy years later we regard the whole era as an international, inhumane tragedy. Millions visit Holocaust museums, concentration and death camps, and other memorials and walk away mystified and disgusted by the evils of humanity. We said and still say, “Never again.”
And I believe we mean it. I believe we want to be pure-souled and good-natured. I just don’t know if we are currently executing our seemingly honest and authentic intentions.