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Sid - sitting around remembering stuff clearly won't make a difference, but as Rick points out, we are now, right now, talking about the Holocaust and those other atrocities, and those conversations are the building blocks to action. We have corporately failed to stop many other atrocities, that doesn't mean we should roll over and stop trying, or stop talking, or stop remembering. I was reflecting the other day: Hitler published another, less well known, book after Mein Kampf. It was based around Sparta and the Spartans, who practiced a form of eugenics (mainly by simply battering other less developed races into submission before subjugating and them killing them) which hitler admired. History clearly influenced Hitler, and gave him the evidence he needed to manipulate for his own pleasure. History is there for a reason, otherwise why would we bother remembering anything? Delving back into time and examining events gives me a huge amount of insights into current societies - if we can learn from history we can change the future.