You try not to think about the Holocaust. A childish desire to close your eyes and ears and shake your head: no, no, this is not real, churiki! But it was for real. And it can happen again at any moment - not only with the Jews, of course.
For the most terrible experience of the Holocaust lies precisely in the fact that everyone did this to other people - ordinary people. And it was not a flash in the heat of passion - work, life.
The pleasure of participating in such work was received, of course, by a minority. The rest had a dozen explanations and excuses. After all, they acted according to the law. And among the Jews there were really very unpleasant people. Well, and so on.
It is quite easy to make a person a serial killer, that's what the main warning of the Holocaust is about. You will not be killed by "strangers" from a Hollywood thriller, with snake appendages from their eyes - this will be done by your neighbor from the landing. It just needs to change the circumstances. Time must allow him to kill you, that's all. Good educated people should explain to him that this is right, expedient, and not at all ashamed.
Actually, what am I telling you? We see how it's done. And what's the difference who will be a Jew next time? Bosnian, Serb, Chechen or Tutsi... It's just that TV has not yet given the go-ahead for massacres. And a man, like a young pioneer, he is always ready, it turns out ...
Therefore, I want to close my eyes and not remember the Holocaust.
It's quite easy to turn a person into a serial killer - this is the main warning of the Holocaust