Mahnmal für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus

Thank you, Steve! These days a reminder is more important than ever.

Many have forgotten, or denied such things in the first place. It's a shocking time...

A large part of the forgetting and denying is down to lousy education. When I was at school history was taught well and we were very aware of the atrocities of the 3rd Reich. In the next generation history lessons got fewer and were sacrificed for other subjects considered more important, resulting in an apolitical generation whose mantra is me, me, me. Thankfully the next generation reacts in protest now.
As far as I know many countries don't teach history well- my American cousin's history lessons were about Texas history and nothing more...
I hate that German schools and universities think they have to imitate the Anglosaxons- away from "Allgemeinbildung" towards "Fachidioten". Of course someone who's brilliant in a very narrow field and knows next to nothing about anything else is much more easily led...

Everything you say is spot-on, Gudrun. I once knew a very smart architect, graduated from Stanford University (very prestigious here). He was shockingly stupid about anything but architecture. It is hard to even have a conversation with someone like that!