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| Originally Posted by Moray Back in 1982, I was driving from Vienna to Zurich with my daughter, and I happened to see the motorway exit sign for Dachau. It was a spur of the moment thing, but I will never forget it, nor will my daughter.
Interesting were the groups of German schoolchildren, noisy and boisterous on their way in, silent and thoughtful on their way out.
Unfortunately, as noted in some of the other replies to this thread, we have learned nothing..... |
Hmm... I'm not so sure about that.
Thinking about Dachau and the like moves me to tears, those German school children weren't exactly laughing when they came out and governments seek to keep those camps to teach us all. I don't think visiting the camps makes anyone proud, like me and many others among my friends I bet you were moved to tears and so are many others if they think hard enough about those terrible places. Michael too I'd imagine.
I'm English and the friends I refer to include Americans, Irish, Brits, French and Norwegian. I can add you and your daughter as Swiss, Michael and a bunch of young school children as Germans. Many European governments have helped to keep these places as memorials, places in which future generations may learn from the past.
We all feel the same way, I'm pretty confident that for once we have all learned something, perhaps not well enough but it's a start. Well done us.