For Arnold Schwarzenegger, preventing history from repeating itself is a daily struggle. The former governor of California visited Auschwitz last September after receiving a Fighting Hatred Award from the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation. The Holocaust was made possible in particular by the rhetoric and the speeches of the Nazis, formulations which are not far from what we can hear today and which contribute to the rise in anti-Semitism. The actor now wants to “talk to people who may have already stumbled in the wrong direction, the wrong path”.
“I want to engage with you if you’ve heard of any conspiracy theories involving Jews, or people of any race, gender, or orientation of thought that make sense to you. I want to talk to you if you have come to believe that anyone is inferior or should be excluded because of their religion, skin color or gender. I don’t know what road got you there, but I’ve seen enough people ruin their futures for hateful beliefs, so I want to talk to you because you’ll only find regrets at the end of this road,” he said. he said in a video posted on YouTube.
The wisdom of the Terminator
And among those people who “wasted their future for hateful beliefs”, there is one thatArnold Schwarzenegger knows very well: his father, who had supported the Nazi party, in Austria. A man he describes as “broken” by the outcome of the war. “They were deceived and led astray on a path that ended in misery,” he continued.
“Throughout history, hate has always been the easy way out, the one requiring the least resistance. I understand. It’s easy to find a scapegoat for a problem rather than trying to make things better on our own. But let me be clear, you won’t find success at the end of this path,” concluded Arnold Schwarzenegger.
