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Blog Post #5 - Vincent

Learning about the Holocaust has not changed my belief or view on history. Learning about the Holocaust has reinforces my belief that historically people have had very flawed and unequal ideas and that have led to very dark events in history. This is a fact we must accept and for the sake of those who survived, and those who didn’t we must ‘fix’ these problems all humanity faces, in the present, while we still can. Most importantly though we must not try to rewrite and/or fix the past. The present is the best time to, atleast begin to, solidify the facts, that all men are created equal and there is no more genetic difference between people from different ‘races’ than people from the same, and prevent unobstructed uprisings like Hitler’s. The only change I faced was how much the Jews denied before they played into Hitler’s hand. This change was initiated when Mrs. Zanger pointed out that the Jews were in denial that the Nazis were doing what they did, and the sparks lit when, reading Night, Moishe the Beadle warned his neighboring Jews that the Nazis were murdering Jews in horrific ways, yet they denied it and tossed Moishe aside. This Flame was fostered when we went to the Holocaust Museum and I saw from the Jew’s P.O.V. and from the Nazi’s what was going on when the Nazis first arrived.
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