Do not forget history!

The other night our family watched The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  I hadn’t read any reviews on the movie, so I wasn’t sure if our children should watch it.  We did let them and we answered questions if they had them.

If you aren’t familiar with the movie, it is about the Holocaust.  It is a story about an adventurous young boy, who happens to have a father who runs a concentration camp that exterminates Jews by gassing them and then burning them.  There is obviously more to the story, but I don’t want to ruin it.

I am not sure our children completely understood it all and I was somewhat afraid that they might have horrible dreams, but at the same time, I was glad that they watched it with us.  I really don’t think that our children are taught enough about this.  I don’t even think that I comprehend all that went on during Hitler’s leadership.

It was a horrendous time in history that must not be forgotten.  And our children deserve to know the truth, so that they can know history and not repeat it.  We don’t need to revisit that scene.  No human, created by God, deserves the treatment that the Jews and the Jewish sympathizers endured.

Power that becomes out of control and falls in the wrong hands is a costly and scary proposition.  God is the only One who can have power and use it right.  Hitler was a maniac and he had many under him who were his puppets.  He took power, did anything to keep power, including brainwashing many into thinking that he was for good and the Jewish people were the evil ones.  He had many in America duped.  Are our children taught that?  I don’t think so.  We really need to know our history, or it just might come back to haunt us.

Do you know history?  Don’t always believe what you are taught in school.  Check things out on your own.  Educate yourself.   We don’t want to repeat the horrors of the past.