In 2005 Pope Benedict recalled the holocaust as "a project of death" that will forever stain the history of humanity - on a trip to his homeland he remarked that Germans will always have to acknowledge that stain with shame and suffering.
The Pope had himself been a Hitler youth, a compulsory paramilitary organisation under the Nazi regime but was never a party member of the political movement his family had rejected.
So much shame, so much confusion and that's just the Germans who lived through the war but what of the new generations - how do they reconcile with a past they did not create ... a conundrum indeed.
A former chief rabbi stated in 2004 that Jewish history is nearing its end in Europe because of rising anti-Semitism expressed in almost every European country and the government of Israel must prepare to absorb that population.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/former-chief-rabbi-european-jewish-history-nearing-its-end-1.142429
He quoted data released at the time that 62% of German citizens are tired of hearing of the Holocaust and 70% are angered when reminded of Nazi crimes.
The lessons of the war were not for the Germans alone but the entire world and isolating them with that shame has been proven a foolish notion because all inhumanity can reoccur at any time in any place ... and does.
The world is buckling under the rife of ignorance and a deficit of history, understood.
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