Assoc. Prof Gideon Boas (Law, Monash University Melbourne): "
It is a solemn lesson that the failure to account for atrocity inflicted on a people, let alone remember it, is harmful to more than the affected communities. It is a message to future dictators and tyrants that they may be free to do the same. It is perhaps one reason why Hitler felt unconstrained in subjecting the Jews and Gypsies of Europe to one of the darkest episodes in modern history."