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The Sunflower Symposium Eugene J. Fisher says that Christians tried to have the Jews try to forgive the Germans for the Holocaust. Fisher also says that Catholics say that the Jews should wait at least a decade to forgive the Germans for the Holocaust. Fisher is leading more to the side of the Catholics and that the Jews should not forgive the Germans till a little later in life. I agree a little bit with Fisher because I believe that the Jews should forget about the past and move on, but they should also remember the history of their past.
I agree to an amount of what Wiesenthal did and that I would have said something to the soldier instead of just leaving the room. If I were in that position I would have not been able to forgive him

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