But what worries me the most is how we are told not to allow history to repeat itself-- and then we stand by and let it, while we are busy memorizing the date that Auschwitz opened. While we are watching movies depicting the Nazi’s oppressive government, we are failing to learn about the oppressive governments that rule today-- literally, today. While we are studying hate crimes of the past, we are ignoring hate crimes of the present. We are too busy learning about how the Germans of the 1950s should have been fighting for the stolen rights of Jews to fight for the stolen rights of people who we might still be able to save. Perhaps it is gauche to mention, but no amount of time spent studying the Holocaust will bring back the lives it took. The time spent studying it could in fact, be preventing us from studying issues that are still salvageable.