70 Years Since The Nuremberg Trials, We’re Abandoning Our Pledge To ‘Never Forget’

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70 Years Since The Nuremberg Trials, We’re Abandoning Our Pledge To ‘Never Forget’

Drawing moral courage from Holocaust survivors, we should hold all education officials accountable for teaching the historic lessons of our civilization.

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night,” wrote Nobel Peace Prize-winning Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in his memoir, “Night.” “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”

 

This fall marks the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, when the Allied victors of World War II and their International Military Tribunal prosecuted and handed down verdicts on the atrocities of Nazi war criminals. President Harry Truman sent U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson to serve as the chief American prosecutor.

 

Nuremberg, Germany was the infamous epicenter of the Nazi Party rallies, and the place where, in 1935, Adolph Hitler promulgated the Nuremberg Laws, codifying and institutionalizing his anti-Semitic policies. That’s why it was selected as the symbolic location for the trials. http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/23/70-years-since-nuremberg-trials-abandoning-pledge-never-forget/