The Holocaust will always lead the list, but only the numbers make it worse that what we did to the American Indians. African slaves didn't fare too well either.
Howard

> 60 years ago today, the last of the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz, was liberated. This marked the end of one of the blackest periods of human history.
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> 15 million people died because their government saw them as "undesirable"... jews, communists, the mentally ill, political opponants... People from all walks of life and of all ages.
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> Some people say "60 years is a long time; it's all in the past now; it's time to put it all behind us and move on". However, barely a half-century ago, Europe (and, to a lesser extent, the whole world) was thrown into Chaos by a political ideology that stated that some people deserved to live and others did not. It was an idea that could resurface tomorrow, or 60 years from now, unless people remember the horrors that were brought, unless people stand up to defend their fellow men, unless we remember that everyone has a right to life and not just Aryans or Islamists or Americans.
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> 60 years is not such a long time.
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> "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me." - Pastor Martin Niemöller, German anti-Nazi protestor, survivor of Dachau.