About the Site

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
--George Orwell "Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
--Machiavelli "What is past is prologue."
--William Shakespeare "We are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last 24 hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last 60 centuries."
--Will Durant

 

We cannot understand the world we live in without knowing the history of the First and Second World Wars. By synthesizing a vast array of facts, figures, first hand accounts, primary sources and academic books and articles, World War and Holocaust Remembrance hopes to demonstrate that the period of 1914-1945 was one Thirty Years’ War which has shaped the present more than any other 30 year period in history. Since the Great War is the first link in this causal chain, it is vitally important that we understand its causes and consequences and how the First World War produced the Second World War and the Holocaust. If we are to understand the present and shape our future, we must never forget the past.