The Nazis thought that Jews (among the many groups that they persecuted) were "untermenschen" or sub-humans
They felt they would be improving the lot of the entire human race by killing all "untermenschen" in the same way a farmer might have to cull cattle that are sick or genetically inferior
Of course the Nazis were very, very, wrong to see themselves as better than others in this way, and to use that as justification to murder those they thought to be inferior
As a direct consequence of the horrors of WW2 the Geneva Convention was agreed by the world's civilized nations to prevent the same sort of atrocities from happening again
The way the Nazis treated the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto is IMO almost identical to the way the Israelis are currently treating the people in Gaza and the West bank
Therefore sadly it is clearly demonstrable that mankind is incapable of learning from its prior mistakes and atrocities, and we must remain alert that this behaviour never again happens.
As long as ‘greed’ is the dominant focal point of human nature, mans inhumanity toward man will simply continue to ‘be’….
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