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Berlin, The Holocaust, and How Jakarta Should Deal With Its Past

  May 1945, the war was nearing to an end in Europe. The Soviets and the Americans were in a race to Berlin. Hitler's best compatriots have losen hope. While the man himself was still sinking in his own enormous ego. Everyone else knew that Germany had lost. It was only a matter of time before the Red Army came marching through the streets of Berlin. They were slicing through Nazi Germany's heart, taking over every piece of land they saw, when finally, they arrived in Auschwitz. There they discovered the hell on earth that was the concentration camp. People wearing no more than their skin , which was attached to their visibly apparent bones, desperate to get out. Pleading behind the barbed fence. The smell was unimaginable. This was the moment when Nazi Germany's worst crime had come to light in the international world , "The Holocaust" as it was named, had almost wiped the entire Jewish population from the face of the earth. 6 million living, breathing, human...