Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. theatln.tc/yofyQRA4 - ThreadSky

theatlantic.com • 26 days ago

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 2022, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social visited Holocaust monuments across Germany to see how the country memorializes the sins of its history—and what America can learn about atonement. https://theatln.tc/yofyQRA4

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cdnlatics.bsky.social•26 days ago

Hey 🇺🇸, shouldn’t you be doing the same remembrance for your crime of slavery? And pay restitution?

kathrynlucht.bsky.social•26 days ago

As an American of German descent, I am proud how Germany educates even their children that this can't happen again.

rollingsteady.bsky.social•26 days ago

So we are to keep what the Nazis did in our collective memories and, at the same time, overlook Elon Musk Nazi salute?

rollingsteady.bsky.social•26 days ago

If what has been happening to the Palestinian people over the last 75 years isn't a gen o cide, then was anything in German a Hol o caust? When you pick what is evil based on skin color or religion, you lose the moral high ground.

harshtake.bsky.social•26 days ago

America will never do this.

And for how long should Germany flagellate itself?

pauliedoc.bsky.social•25 days ago

6 million+ people were systematically murdered by the German State. How is remembrance in order to avoid repeating that considered flagellation? And any institution run by humans can do this. America is no different.

mikalt.bsky.social•26 days ago

How soon we forget the moving of Japanese from our west coast to camps during WWII … they lost property businesses and their freedoms. Only thing we didn’t do is mass executions. Don’t think it couldn’t happen here…

harshtake.bsky.social•26 days ago

I meant that America will never systematically examine the bad parts of its history.

I don’t live too far from one of the Japanese internment camps.

I know what we’re capable of.

mikalt.bsky.social•26 days ago

You are spot on…we (Americans like other nationalities) will never consider our faults. Which is why i say we refuse to learn. Frustrates the hell out of me. BTW- My grandfather helped build & later tear down the Heart Mountain Camp in Wyoming.

auntietoall.bsky.social•26 days ago

As long as it takes. I admire them for understanding how terrible it was.

harshtake.bsky.social•26 days ago

There must be some way to teach, learn, and honor the history of the Holocaust without rendering Germany unable to move forward.

AfD thrives on the tension the status quo creates. And all of Europe would benefit from a stronger and more robust Germany.

That’s all.

thecentrist.bsky.social•26 days ago

How stark a contrast to read the poignant and tragic stories of fear, courage and hope cast against the disgusting, self-absorption, greed and callousness of Musk, Trump and the cowards in the GOP. Lest we forget of what happens when we give way to fascism and autocracy.

robert-cornwell.bsky.social•26 days ago

Vergangenheitsbewältigung

texasfourplex.bsky.social•26 days ago

❤️😢❤️😢❤️😢❤️😢

godlessatheist.bsky.social•26 days ago

How Germany remembers it now is have Elon Musk show up to tell AfD to for-gedda-bout-it. Because, Musk says, all that woke bullshit about how Germans should feel guilty makes Aryan schoolchildren feel bad about themselves.

auntietoall.bsky.social•26 days ago

Musk. I spit his name out of my mouth. He is wicked.

jayepassage.bsky.social•26 days ago

Never again only happens when new generations understand History.

mikalt.bsky.social•26 days ago

Former history teacher here… i firmly believe that the only thing we (humanity) learn from history is that we don’t & refuse to learn from history”.

jayepassage.bsky.social•26 days ago

True that. Time to work on it!

sixonedude.bsky.social•26 days ago

Why are you using the same stretched typeface as the White House? :(

darkskies666.bsky.social•26 days ago

the pic seems overexpose; I don't get it. abandon railways are only a symbol of a bad roadway choice. sorry.

darhlenez.bsky.social•25 days ago

What is wrong with you?

darkskies666.bsky.social•24 days ago

one thousand and one and too little time to waist. i am not looking to hook up or find love. i had my share of that and i don't want to chat with an AI robot. in short, i am not buying into the online uncritical indoctrination of the rich, religious crap from idiots.

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