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  Bern, you've pretty much said exactly what I was coming on to say. The Holocaust of WWII has come to symbolize the scope of inhumanity that is possible. By placing the Jewish Holocaust in such high profile we don't get to ignore other people's plights but rather obtain a heightened sense of them thanks to the impact of this event. The very fact that the Jewish Holocaust has sparked off debates about Boers, Pol Pot etc is proof of this. This is an event that we, as a race (the "human" race I mean) can never "move on" from. To do so would mean that we've grown comfortable with the reality of those events and that is one thing that can never, MUST never, happen.
  
  I'm sure there are individuals or groups out there who use the Holocaust to bolster their own current agenda just as there are those out there who deny it ever happened. But the documentary evidence is there. And I can say from my own personal viewpoint that the history lessons and constant reminder of the Jewish Holocaust has made me aware of many other plights in history, including more recent ones. Exactly what can be done to avoid it ever happening again I don't know, maybe there's nothing anyone can do to stop the power of human evil marching onwards in this way.

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