It's also not really a simple fact. When you live in a safe, stable environment where you are taught empathy, that everyone should treat everyone else fairly, a

It's also not really a simple fact. When you live in a safe, stable environment where you are taught empathy, that everyone should treat everyone else fairly, and that nurtures a healthy skepticism, horrors so extreme are hard to wrap your head around. How could people treat other people, other living, breathing, bleeding humans, with such callous disregard? How to educate about hate, how it develops and how it manifests is hugely complicated and always encounters political friction. Americans have our own genocides[1], cultural erasure[2], history of violent bondage[2] and modern[4] internment[5] policies[6] that we also fail to educate about on a wide scale. It's not surprising that so many have slipped through the cracks wrt the Holocaust. 1. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html 2. http://www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org/the-forced-assimilation-of-native-americans.html http://www.gwichinsteeringcommittee.org/the-forced-assimilat... 3. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lynching-memorial-montgomery-alabama/index.html https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lynching-memorial-montgom... 4. https://eji.org/mass-incarceration https://eji.org/mass-incarceration 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America... 6. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/18/immigrant-children-detention-centers/10798643/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/18/immigr...