It is a matter of truth. We must recognize both sides of the truth, and we must act accordingly.
The Nazis and their accomplices exposed humanity to the most brutal and psychopathic facet of the human being. This truth would have been lost upon the world if the Jews had been punished through earthquakes, floods, fires, or plagues.
It has to be exposed.
The Holocaust was as much a mark on the perpetrators as it was a punishment upon the transgressors. Today, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Nazi criminals look back upon their ancesters with shame and disgust. And so many others recognize that no human being can retain any self worth or dignity when he sits passively while evil is done to another.
The Holocaust illuminated the Jew as the weak and feeble bearer of the enormous torch intended to light the world,
and his enemy as the one endowed with the raw power and violence intent on crushing the torch, extinguishing it into the ashes of its faithful carrier.
It’s simple. We try. They try.
We try to do what is right, and we stumble.
They try to trip us, crush us, destroy us, and they succeed.
Can you tell me that we hate them any more for tripping us,
than we reproach ourselves for being tripped?