Watched some eps of a documentary show on abandoned places last night. It's unsettling to see how many of them are associated with WWII, & with the Nazis in particular. Seeing that again & again really underscores how hard all of Europe was hit by WWII & all that came with it.
We don't have a clue in the US, really.
The last time we had a war on US soil was the US Civil War, & half the nation glorifies that as an upholding of institutionalized racism & white supremacy. We've learned little.
@Impious_Jade: People learned a lot, but over time those people died. Then their kids died, and then their kids died. Then some folks decided, as people do, that the only problem with what evil was way back when was "just that they didn't do right" or "have good enough reasons., but we do". And so things begin again.
Ideas never ever, ever die, just as humans will always have a simultaneous positive and negative nature and capacity to choose either.