The Holocaust has done extreme damage to the souls of the world. However, do people learn from the mistakes of racial war?
"...although we had the right to give up on humanity ... [but] we said no, we must continue believing in a future, because the world has learned. But again, the world hasn't. Had the world learned, there would have been no Cambodia and no Rwanda and no Darfur and no Bosnia. Will the world ever learn?" - Ellie Wiesel, US President Barack Obama's visit to Buchenwald, 05 June 2009
"And that's why he [General Eisenhower] ordered American troops and Germans from the nearby town to tour the camp. He invited congressmen and journalists to bear witness and ordered photographs and films to be made. And he insisted on viewing every corner of these camps so that -- and I quote -- he could "be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever in the future there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to propaganda."
We are here today because we know this work is not yet finished. To this day, there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened -- a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful. This place is the ultimate rebuke to such thoughts; a reminder of our duty to confront those who would tell lies about our history." - US Barack Obama, Buchenwald 05 June 2009
"The last eyewitness appeal to Germany, to all European states, and to the international community to continue preserving and honoring the human gift of remembrance and commemoration into the future. We ask young people to carry on our struggle against Nazi ideology, and for a just, peaceful and tolerant world; a world that has no place for anti-Semitism, racism, xenophobia, and right-wing extremism." - Chancellor Merkel's speech, particular quote from the the presidents of the associations of former inmates at the concentration camps, 05 June 2009
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