Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Merkur; deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken
Angaben zur Quelle:
52,11 (1998) 1088-1092
Keywords:
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
Argues that the Holocaust was unique because it was perpetrated by citizens of a civilized, industrialized Western state; it was aimed at a single ethnic group, not based, like other genocides, on conflict over power, wealth, or land; its intention was to eliminate Jews not in a single country, but worldwide; and it was an outgrowth of historic European antisemitism, which was more than a mere subtype of xenophobia or racism. These differences need not prevent us from comparing it with the Gulag; suffering is not measurable.
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