Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American delegation attending the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the camp's liberation, she returned not in a cattle car, but in business class. The ceremonies were historical, to be sure, but they had a broader goal. The nations of the world came together and asserted that the evil of Auschwitz did not belong on this planet. Hungary, Poland, Russia, England, France and others testified that humanity cannot allow such injustices to happen again...
This week, as we commemorate Yom Ha-Shoah or the Day of Remembrance, the question naturally arises: what precisely was this evil called the Holocaust? How do we quantify it? Six million were murdered, but the numbers are not central. Twenty million Russians died in the same...
Many would maintain that it cannot. Historical isolationists claim that the enormity of the evil that occurred in mid-century Europe was beyond anything seen before on earth. The Nazis committed singular crimes, they argue, fundamentally incongruous with any other historical acts of violence or even genocide...
Many would agree, but the isolationists take the argument one step further. They then conclude that the Holocaust has no real applied lessons. Since no other situations in history are compatible with the Holocaust model, we cannot look to it for practical advice on confronting evil in the world today...
...Katz's argument rings hollow. Who is to say that a more organized, better funded and technologically more advanced Serb army wouldn't systematically destroy the Muslim population of Bosnia? Recently discovered documents have shown the evil intent of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as he ordered the vicious murder of peaceful Bosnian Muslims. Are the Serbs just Nazis whose military teeth are not quite has sharp...