Why read WWII history?

Justin Beber recently visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo thinking it was just a “beautiful site and only a place of prayer”. Justin is really popular and in high demand; the courthouses in many cities (Miami, Toronto and Los Angeles) have all called for his appearance. He probably has limited knowledge about WWII; unfortunately he may not be alone among many of his fans or idolators.

There is nothing wrong in having a shrine memorizing the war dead, but having a war museum defending Japan’s wartime aggression and atrocities is not acceptable and not in the best interest to Japanese people.

Elie Wiesel wrote, “I emphasize that I do not believe in collective guilt.  The children of killers are children, not killers.  We must never blame them for what their elders did.  But we can hold them responsible for what they do with the memory of their elders' crime.”

I was never tired of reading WWII history. How could the highly educated German people follow blindly in delirious excitement to war, to destruction and to death?

In his second wartime speech before he took premiership, Church said of Hitler, “a haunted, morbid being, who, to their eternal shame, the German people in their bewilderment have worshiped as a god.” German people paid the ultimate price.

One needs to read WWII, especially the German and Japanese people so that we will never again have another Hitler or Hideki Tojo.