One reason we need to educate students about Hiroshima and the Holocaust is so people don't forget and make the same mistakes. On the page vi in the Preface for the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition by Robert McAfee Brown he states that “It must be the prayer of our generation that with his, Elie wiesel's, help we can recapture enough of that reality so that it will never be repeated.” With proper education the Holocaust and Hiroshima might have been prevented or at least not as bad as they were and if we keep educating people on the topics we can help …show more content…
In Confronting Hatred: 70 Years After the Holocaust Christopher Browning states ¨The Holocaust was not a tsunami. It was not an earthquake. The Holocaust was a manmade-event. People made decisions and people acted. And we couldn't understand World War 2.” This is a perfect way to explain that the Holocaust and Hiroshima were man made and millions of lives were lost because some people's decisions. “What we must avoid is to look at the Holocaust as some kind of supernatural event, in which we don't have to see it the human terms of the people who committed it.” When we face the facts that people like us created these events we can help prevent anything like this from happening