Thoughts on feelings on superiority and unchecked concentration of power

I visited the Resistance Museum and Anne Frank’s House in Amsterdam this week. The Resistance Museum is a peek into life in the Netherlands under Nazi Germany. During the war all the European powers heavily exploited their colonies for mineral resources, natural gas and food supplies. One such colony was Indonesia which was ruled by the Netherlands. This colony had a tiered racist structure with the native Indonesian at the bottom, then the Dutch-Indonesian mixed race and the Dutch people at the top. The native Indonesian people were used for all kinds of slave labour. Then many of these European powers including the Netherlands themselves were ruled by Nazi Germany and got a taste of what is like to be ruled by an unjust foreign power. Nazi Germany carried out a forced extradition and murder of millions of jewish citizens to concentration camps. The Indonesian colony of the Netherlands was attacked and taken over by Japan. Although initially Japan promised to free the Indonesians…