History is not one big blur, where every wrong is equal to another, or easily compared. It is commonly accepted that all (modern, big, western) countries have a warmongering past. Few ever hold anything against the Third Reich with a claim of complete innocence of their own past.

Events must be seen in their full historical light, not compared by resemblances alone. One does not compare the Germanic expansion in the fourth and fifth centuries with the quest for Lebensraum in the twentieth. One will end up like those confused anarcho-communists who maintain that the Berlin Wall was as trivial a wrong as the wall in the Arizona desert. Both are walls meant to stop people etc.


Me, I maintain that the greatest crime ever committed by mankind was my very own ancestor, Ugh the Cro Magnon cavepainter of Lascaux, who genocided an entire human species by killing the last neandertal.