Marking Remembrance Day So That We Shall Never Be Evil Again
January 27th is the International Commemoration Day for the victims of the Holocaust, an event that still haunts European memory, although three generations have passed since the end of WWII. "First of all for the victims themselves," says Guido Alfani, professor of economic history at Bocconi, "but also because not only the successes in the history of mankind should be remembered, but also the evil things because remembering past crimes helps not to commit them again. And even if this is not entirely true," continues Alfani, "because unfortunately man is prone to error, but having the awareness of what happened then, and of the consequences that can derive from bad political choices, will perhaps help us avoid atrocities on such a scale."