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Dear FRONTLINE,

An excellent program. I still cannot understand the average German's ambivalence to the Holocaust. His classroom appearance with German school kids was frankly shocking. It appears that the new generation has no concept of what genocide is. In the USA most high schools have a section on the Holocaust. If possible a survivor appears to tell their story and answer questions. It seems that German schools try to teach but there is no connection that the atrocities of the Holocaust engineered in Germany were carried out by seemingly normal educated and moral German people.

Lenny Fagan
skokie, il

Dear FRONTLINE,

I escaped the Holocaust but I might easily have been a victim.I believe it is wrong to blame a whole people even if there were many who willingly and often gladly participated in atrocities. I blame the people only for the way they allowed the Nazi regime to take power and poison their minds.

America has not built a memorial to remember the Native Americans previous generations slaughtered nor the black slaves they kidnapped and robbbed of their humanity.

World leaders knew of the Holocaust and stood by with folded arms just as they stood by earlier and watched the Armenians being masssacred and later in Ruanda and now in Darfur.

Truly there is enough guilt to go around. Education must catch the young and imbue them with love and tolerance.

If religion has any use this it what it must do instead of spreading ignorance and prejudice.

Martin Ben-Ari
Wheatley Hts, ny

Dear FRONTLINE,

It is a huge step for German relationships with Jewish people. Berlin is the only capital in the world that will showcase that country's faults and explores the darkest part of its own history. For instance Washington does not have a slavery or a Native American Memorial. Germans and Jews must meet half way. If the new generations of Germans are made to feel overly ashamed then they will not face the issue at all. In future I hope the two will be able to civilly face each other. I would like to thank that Mr. Marzynski for such a wonderful documentary.

e h

Dear FRONTLINE,

A little background I am the child of holocaust survivors. Both of my parents fled Germany during the late 1930’s while in their teens. My maternal grandfather was killed in a concentration camp. My mother also lost many other relatives an uncle and several cousins as well. My father also lost many family members to the holocaust. Yet they did not teach me to distrust the children and grandchildren of the many evil people who committed these atrocities against my family and many others.

It is for this reason that I find Mr. Marzynski’s reaction to the younger German generation surprising. Why should Germans 35 years and younger feel any responsibility for their parents or grandparents misdeeds? He almost seemed disappointed that these people didn’t feel any guilt. Many of younger Germans wonder when they will be aloud to stop being “punished” for previous generations mistakes. Even my mother who lost so much wondered the same thing. She also used to say that none of this “will bring any of the dead back to life.”

It is my belief that the younger Germans in the film whose goal is to educate but not place blame have the right answer.

Richard Isaak
Londonderry, NH

Dear FRONTLINE,

Assigning guilt and responsibility soley to the Germans misses the point in the same way "Never again" ignores history and the present. Human beings hurt oppress and kill other human beings and we find it easiest to do so when we stop thinking of each other as human beings. We are all guilty when we start down the slippery slope of categorizing people into "us" and "them".

Germaine Fraser

Dear FRONTLINE,

I ask the question: we seem to focus on the holocaust of the past. What are we doing about the present holocaust of the African people? Rwanda? Ethiopia? Where are those who suffered in past speaking for those who can not speak? I hear nothing

katherine loren

Dear FRONTLINE,

I found this film to be another contribution to the underlying agenda of bashing Germany. It is not ok even if this was a very personal journey to depict Germany without any other commentary in such a biased and self-righteous way. People constantly discuss the Holocaust in Germany. I have lived there for years. No other country has struggled so hard to keep their horrible national memory alive therefore Germans were able to be overwhelmingly against waging war against Iraq. At least they learned from the horror which others should have too. The Holocaust is not just a German matter. The author refers to German DNA at some point which is an ethnic bias to top it off. One has the impression Mr. Marzinsky would have been happier had he been able to blame people in Germany more than he actually could.

Bernard Minoggio
New York, NY