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Why the Holocaust is unique.

From: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life andThought  |  Date: 9/22/2001  |  Author: Fackenheim, Emil L.; Patterson, David

IF THE HOLOCAUST WAS UNIQUE, FOR German Jews it was uniquely unique. Throughout Europe what was done to the Jews was done by an invading enemy, but for the Jews in Germany it was done by people they, so to speak, went to school with.

This opening sentence I could not have said ten years ago or thirty years ago, because a long time had to pass before one could face it. And I think, in retrospect, a lot of great men--Germans as well as Jews, Christians as well as Jews, among them ...

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