
How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
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The Differences Between Germany and the United States
In the United States, because of the very specific way in which slaves had been extracted from their homes and then were further separated from family, people pretty much know right as much as you and I do that were the descendants of enslaved people. You don't have people who can walk around and tell their relatives very specific story from the beginning. In Germany, there just aren't many Jewish people left,. less than 200,000 Jewish people in Germany, which is less than a quarter of a percent of the population. And that's very different than in the United States where there are 40 million black people. Right.
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