The New Hampshire Holocaust Memorial, in Rotary Common Park, in Nashua, proudly honors and commemorates those whose precious lives were lost in the Holocaust. The memorial pays particular homage to those who perished in the extermination camps. From the memorial website«The memorial contains no religious symbols, nor does it represent one nation, race or religion. Rather, its design was inspired by the belief that to empathize with those who endured the horrors of the Holocaust, one must — on some small level — experience a concentration camp itself. « That being said, some of the inscriptions obviously, and appropriately, pay special attention to the six million Jewish people murdered by Nazis, and their allies and enablers, across Germany, Austria and Poland. While the Nazis murdered many millions of people, amongst many ethnic and political groups, the only people targeted for extermination was the Jewish people. Albert Speer confessed«The hatred of the Jews was Hitler’s driving force and central point, perhaps even the only element that moved him. The German people, German greatness, the Reich, all that meant nothing to him in the final analysis. Thus, the closing sentence of his Testament sought to commit us Germans to a merciless hatred of the Jews after the apocalyptic downfall. I was present in the Reichstag session of January 30, 1939 when Hitler guaranteed that, in the event of another war, the Jews, not the Germans, would be exterminated. This sentence was said with such certainty that I would never have doubted his intent of carrying through with it»
