Of all the horrors of World War II, the murder of over 6 million Jews is seen as an almost unparalleled act of evil.
Still today, Germany struggles with the legacy of the holocaust: how it should be remembered and how to prevent it ever happening again.
Moral philosopher Susan Neiman believes there are lessons in this traumatic history for other countries, particularly modern-day America.
She reflects on this in her new book, Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.
Listen to the program from ABC RN Breakfast.