I just finished watching a movie called The Judgment at Nuremberg for an American Heritage assignment, and
I’m left with this uneasy feeling. The thing about history is it’s fascinating and
important, but it isn’t usually a happy subject. And how can it be? Even though
there is so much good in this world, we have to recognize the evil that has
always been out their fighting against that goodness.
Recognizing “The Human Predicament”- as my American Heritage teacher calls it- and the human history of brutality, is history’s specialty.
The Judgment at
Nuremburg was about the trial of judges who practiced during WWII in Nazi
Germany that sentenced countless citizens and stood by as unjust laws were set
in place under Hitler’s reign. In the film they kept saying that “they didn’t
know” what was going on, but in the end one of the judges said that although
they may not have known everything, they just didn’t want to see what was right
in front of them. It scares me to think about what we are all capable of
sometimes, but I am grateful that
history is there to help us learn, even if it is a hard lesson.
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