TY - JOUR
T1 - Essay
T2 - On the place of the holocaust in history: In honour of Franklin H. Littell
AU - Bauer, Yehuda
PY - 1987
Y1 - 1987
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1093/hgs/2.2.209
DO - 10.1093/hgs/2.2.209
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C2 - 11617155
AN - SCOPUS:0023460086
SN - 8756-6583
VL - 2
SP - 209
EP - 220
JO - Holocaust and Genocide Studies
JF - Holocaust and Genocide Studies
IS - 2
ER -