Reply to: Sh*ts of the highest order

[NotAllThere]

Never learned that people never learn?

History repeats itself. It has to. No-one listens.

Even if history does repeat in this case, it doesn't nullify the argument for keeping the sites as monuments.

[Churchill]

Never learned that people never learn?

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

[Not So Wise]

Go and see for your self. It is a chilling example of human cruelty. It also explains a great deal about how people's minds work............ generations of people will learn hugely from its existence and thus prevent recurrences of such behaviour.

Never learned that people never learn?

[Churchill]

I am always sceptical of that "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" stuff. Given the right circumstances, some suitable scapegoats, a major grievance and leaders willing to exploit it, people will repeat it anyway and be happy to do it. The only way to prevent it is to have absolute certain checks on power and our leaders won't do that.

When you think about it, it is a somewhat ridiculous proposition that people will willingly kill others, unless of course they have visited a historic place where others were killed, when they won't.

Where did all the Nazis disappear to after the war? After all, it wasn't the Germans who commited the atrocities, was it? Oh no, it was the Nazis!

[xoggoth]

I am always sceptical of that "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" stuff. Given the right circumstances, some suitable scapegoats, a major grievance and leaders willing to exploit it, people will repeat it anyway and be happy to do it. The only way to prevent it is to have absolute certain checks on power and our leaders won't do that.

When you think about it, it is a somewhat ridiculous proposition that people will willingly kill others, unless of course they have visited a historic place where others were killed, when they won't.

[NotAllThere]

I'd also give you a but you'd only enjoy it.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Found.

[shaunbhoy]

I wouldn't mind visiting but I suspect that there are not many laughs there. These places should be maintained to show what a 'civilised' nation is capable of!

Too true. The memory that stays with me most is that of a glasscase that ran the full width of one of the prison blocks. Must have been a good 15-20 yards.
This case must have been at least waisthigh and was chock full of human hair. You could see children's ponytails etc. just lying there in amongst the rest. This was not some Hollywood reincarnation..........this was the real deal, or so we were told. Breathtakingly sad.

[BoredBloke]

I wouldn't mind visiting but I suspect that there are not many laughs there. These places should be maintained to show what a 'civilised' nation is capable of!

[shaunbhoy]

You're not a Tandem Non-Stop guy by any chance?

Nah. Was working on the rollout of the GSM Plus Network.
Happy Days.
"Never in the field of human endeavour has so much been made by so many for doing so little" was our happy mantra!!

[NotAllThere]

That's what he did.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

I have no problem with such places being kept intact if it prevents them being newly built.

I'll remember that and pretend that I thought of it.

[NotAllThere]

...I have no problem with such places being kept intact if it prevents them being newly built.

top post.

[Diver]

My parents took me to Belsen when I was a teenager. They did not say a word, they just left me

FTFY

[RichardCranium]

Shouldn't Auschwitz be left to rot anyway? I'm not really sure what message is being sent by maintaining it.

My parents took me to Belsen when I was a teenager. They did not say a word, they just left me to make my own mind up.

I have not been to Auschwitz, but the message that Belsen gives out is: "People like you did this. And you could do it again."

No books or web sites or TV programmes have affected me the way that visit to Belsen did. I have no problem with such places being kept intact if it prevents them being newly built.