[pieceofthepuzzle]

When I was a child, and heard for the first time the history of the concentration camps and Hitler’s attempted extermination of Jews, I thought - how could the world have sat by and let this happen? I came to the conclusion then that the world didn’t really know the truth until the war was underway, although I now know that some in the world undoubtedly knew before then.

Now, as an adult, I live in a world in which stories of innocent children being killed, women being raped and mutilated, people being beheaded or burned alive because of their religious beliefs or sexual orientation, and so many other atrocities are commonplace - with pictures shown on the evening news. Sadly, we have all ignored this to differing extents. We read this story, but then move on with our lives. The world is at a critical point in history. We have to pay attention.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Christ is truly the only One who can empower us to do it right.

[Made In The USA]

Very well said. Shameful that world leaders can not draw the same parallel and act decisively.

This has been a matter of whether or not we value human life, whether we are rational enough to acknowledge there is evil in the world, and whether or not we are brave enough to act appropriately.

[Cronos]

Regarding Hitler's attempted extermination of Jews and Slavs:

• Adolf wrote what he planned to do in his MeinKampf -- and he followed through. He gave adequate warnings
• But most people didn't believe that the German people would do it -- the entire incident shows that all of us can slip into evil if we do not watch out
• But also when many Jews were running from Germany, they were refused entry by the UK government as they felt that this would exacerbate English anti-semitism
• The conquest of Poland was the start of the death-knell: a country with 1/3rd of world Jewry captured by an anti-semitic Germany
• The Poles got out news, but no one believed them - in a way I can understand, it seems incredible that this could happen. Many of the victims couldn't believe the horror either
• But, once the war was underway, what could have been done? I don't think anything more could have been done from 1941 to 1945 - perhaps I;m wrong