ESSAY: ON THE PLACE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN HISTORYIn Honour of Franklin H. Littell
The Holocaust was a human event, perpetrated for human reasons which can be historically explained. As an event within history, it is unique in terms of the murderers'S motivation: a mission to rescue Germany, Europe and the world from their supreme enemy, the Jews. Other events, such as that w...
| Published in: | Holocaust and genocide studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1987
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Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Summary: | The Holocaust was a human event, perpetrated for human reasons which can be historically explained. As an event within history, it is unique in terms of the murderers'S motivation: a mission to rescue Germany, Europe and the world from their supreme enemy, the Jews. Other events, such as that which seems to most closely parallel the Holocaust, the Armenian massacres by the Turks in World War I, bear certain similarities to the Holocaust. Yet. In its attempt at total physical annihilation of all Jews everywhere, the Holocaust is unique. It stands at the extreme end of a continuum of human brutality, extending from mass murder, which has become commonplace, to genocide, and to Holocaust. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/2.2.209 |