This is the second installment of the Battle of the Bulge series for Journey to American Democracy.

This one is very hard to watch. As the title says, it is about a massacre.

But the lesson of that massacre is far greater than the particular events of 1944: it shows the brutality of authoritarian governments. To such governments, both by definition and in practice, the lives of individuals don’t matter.

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