On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the 6 million Jews and millions of Slavs, Roma, Communists, Disabled people, Queer people, Afro-Germans, and many others killed by Nazis and their collaborators (Thread)

Year after Year we say “never again” to honor the memory of those who were murdered and prevent another genocide, but historical memory is a fickle thing which was long ago murdered too and there is very little interest for honoring the truth

There is this version of the Holocaust that ppl want to maintain-that it was solely a German genocide built out of blame of Jews for economic conditions after WWI and all the nazis who did it are dead and no one living has any culpability

It does not play down the Holocaust at all to say that it cannot and must not be treated as unique and independent within the history of the world, and in fact to properly understand it we must understand it within the history of other colonial projects

People don’t want to understand the true conditions and the historical basis from which the Holocaust was perpetuated and from which many genocides since have been built from.