Essay: On the place of the holocaust in history: In honour of Franklin H. Littell

Yehuda Bauer*

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)209-220
Number of pages12
JournalHolocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume2
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1987

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