Who said this? "Nobody should expect people to forget the suffering of their ancestors, nor should they. But memories of past trials should translate into efforts to ensure that they don't happen again, not into sustaining resentment."
If you guessed the New York Times (International Herald Tribune), you probably guessed they were talking about Polish reparation claims against Germany, too. The Times, however, is a dollar late on the story as the brief flirtation with the reparation idea was quickly abandoned. Unlike, say, slave reparations in the U.S.
This NYTimes article, oddly, doesn't mention 'sustaining resentment' once. Maybe they should cc the Romantic Revolutionary.
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