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> This seems to go against centuries of crusade and genocide, but we can always try our best :)

I'm German. I seriously hope for this world that no one will ever again dare to repeat the atrocities that my ancestors have committed. But then, I am afraid, the Holocaust and the two World Wars have drifted so far out of living history that some may at least be tempted to try the latter one again.

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Unfortunately there are even young Europeans who have been witness to genocide. The Srebrenica massacre was 22 years ago.

> I seriously hope for this world that no one will ever again dare to repeat the atrocities that my ancestors have committed

If you look a bit outside a euro-centric view of things, you can see this happening today in the Middle East. Just because it isn’t white folks killing Jews doesn’t mean it doesn’t count.

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