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Auschwitz now bears a plaque with the famous quote from George Santayana, "The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again." Considering Santayana was himself a eugenicist, was this choice of quote intended to be ironic and/or contradictory?

by /u/LorenzoApophis in /r/AskHistorians

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