The tragic images of brutalized masses scar our brains.

The Holocaust has long been a sad and grotesque chapter in the world’s history.

For decades historians have struggled to find an essential missing element of the calamity: the diary of Alfred Rosenberg.

Alfred Rosenberg was the central ideologist of the Nazi Party and a top aid to Adolf Hitler. He provided the basic anti-Semitic and racial ideologies that fueled the Holocaust. 

It was assumed that Rosenberg’s diary had been permanently lost following the Nuremberg Trials. However, after an extensive investigation, the Department of Homeland Security recovered the lost artifact. 

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum just recently released the diary to the public by publishing it online. 

Museum director Sara Bloomfield asserts that: 

“The Rosenberg diary will add to our understanding of the ideas that animated the extremist ideology of Nazism.” 

The diary will undoubtedly add to the understanding of the Holocaust, but can it do more? 

Does this diary have the ability to create a deeper understanding that will prevent future genocide?

Or is it merely a fascinating relic?