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Dr. Peter F. Hayes is an esteemed historian and recognized expert on the Holocaust. Dr. Hayes -– who is not Jewish — is chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has written or edited 10 books. In the video linked below, Dr. Hayes explains why and how the genocidal murder of European Jews took place.

Quote: “Over the past seven years, Mozolová, who was honored with the ‘Crystal Wing’ award in the category of literature and journalism, has documented the stories of 138 Slovaks who helped save Jews during the Holocaust. She went from having a small organization to working on 26 documentaries. ‘I don’t want society to forget those stories,’ Mozolová said. ‘A lot of the stories are unknown. They lived within families. People were never honored by official titles.’ ” — The Jerusalem Post

Sources: Wikipedia, Goodreads.com

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“[T]he foundations for extremism usually are held in check by various restraints. Societies are not liberal, moderate, progressive, and free because almost all their citizens – let alone their politicians — are liberal, moderate, progressive or committed to the freedoms of others.

“But societies consistently avoid extremism when the infrastructures of freedom are strong: when key institutions and norms encourage a more decent, rights-respective, lawful politics; when powerful social movements and independent media hold leaders to account, expose rather than reinforce political fantasies, and champion the rights of the vulnerable; and when information is produced and scrutinized by scholars, civil servants, and non-governmental organizations devoid of either government repression or vested interests.

“Yet no infrastructure is rigidly immovable, and once key components are eroded and weakened, once sections of the political and cultural elite attempt to mobilize the foundations of extremism, the system of restraints can swiftly collapse.

“While genocide on the scale of the Holocaust is historically exceptional, its central lesson is that the broader danger of extreme atrocities is not. In the words of the great historian Ian Kershaw, the Holocaust ‘lit a warning beacon that still burns brightly: it showed how a modern, advanced, cultured society can so rapidly sink into barbarity… It showed what we are capable of.’ Only by rejecting false narratives of conflict and polarization, and maintaining systems of rights and freedoms for all, can we hope to prevent that capability from once more becoming a reality.”

— Jonathan Leader Maynard in his incisive article “Could It Happen Here?: The Holocaust and Atrocities in the 21st Century” To read the entire article, click here.