Holocaust is the worst tragedy that had ever happen to humankind.
I saw a documentary about how the Germans educate their young. They are making sure that the Holocaust tragedy be taught in the school. Admit their mistake in the past and promise never let it happen again in the future.
Thank you for sharing.
That's interesting to know, and how contrasty that is to the situation around me in Africa! My country, Nigeria, fought a bloody civil war in the
50slate 60s and early 70s that wasted over 2.5 million lives as war casualties and from starvation that was used as a tool of war. The Biafra Civil war. I say in good authority that the average person in Nigeria who is not particularly inquisitive about history, cannot give an account of that war.I recall in elementary school when I was made to sing "Ojukwu wanted to seperate Nigeria, but Gowon said Nigeria must be one." FYI, I was on the Biafra side of the war, geographically. Well I meant to write my forebears were. Ojukwu was the leader of the Biafra secession movement that were forced to surrender when Gowon's Nigeria and his western allies (particularly England) did everything -- even violating human rights through inflicted starvation, and "further atrocities including deliberate bombing of civilians, mass slaughter with machine guns, and rape" -- to win a war and force the Biafrans to remain part of Nigeria, to this day.
This war was largely fought for reasons that bordered on natural resources, particularly for ethnic intolerance and the ego of some erratic youth leaders of the time, who just took over the saddle of leadership after "independence" from Great Britain.
Before I digress too much, the lessons of this war is not taught in schools, public or private. The only memory of such reference was a warped one-sided assembly song I had to sing as a toddler, referenced above. There even seems to be a conspiracy to muffle the discussion.
And, the result is in 2018 the intolerance between major ethnic groups continue, such that the Hausas (who largely reside in the north) recently -- read that as late 2017 -- warned the Igbos (who live in the south-east) that dwelt in their region to leave else there will be another cleansing. The same cleansing that resulted in a pogrom that led to a bloody civil war just a few decades before. Our Fulani president is an unapologetic bigot in his relation to other groups.
It's an interesting topic you might want to explore, and I think I should do further reading into too. So back to where we started, I commend the Germans and I would appreciate references to the initiative so I can have a good counter weight in my research into the Nigeria situation.
Thank you @liberosist for sharing this. I just downloaded it to my device and would consume it in a bit. Yeah, I have to download it else my 50kbps internet would keep buffering and take the fun from watching it.
EDIT: War was not fought in the 50s as I wrongly asserted. The dates were between 6 Jul 1967 – 15 Jan 1970. Thank you Chidi for pointing that out.
@misterakpan, thank you for taking the time to highlight the horrors of the civil war--the Biafran War.
However, this is history and errors are not justifiable. I want to point out that the war was fought in the late 60s towards 70s(from 1967 to 1970) and not in the 50s like you've stated.
Now, that is the part intend to correct, and I think I have.
I agree with every other point you've made.
Cheers.
Thank you for that correction, @chidiurua. I would make the adjustment as necessary. War was fought between 1967 - '70. On a very lighter note, com'on dude! Give me some credit, I found all that out on my own and I wasn't taught any bit of it from elementary school through university. That's topical, right? 😆😆😆
And give you some credit, I shall! 😂😂
Thank you for sharing. It's so frustrating when there was no effort to correct the wrong of the past leader. It only invites similar conflict in the future which i pray so hard would not come into that. The only thing I remember about the German education was an American man. He travelled the whole of Europe to learn values from them. If my memory serves me well, the documentary titled "Next Invasion". I will check it myself and get back to you.
Well, the worst tragedy in recorded history was the Mongol Invasions. But, I digress.
Yes, it's important to learn from history's evils. Note - the current generation of Germans have absolutely nothing to do with the crimes of the Nazi regime, so it's not about "admitting a mistake" they simply did not make. But yes, it's about knowing never to let it happen again.
Indeed, this generation is far removed. And there are tons of memorials and monuments across Berlin that stand as grim remainder of the past. It actually kinda feels sad that they have to walk around in Berlin constantly reminded of their past.