Word: holocaust
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Adolf Hitler is the obvious choice for the single individual who had the most profound impact on the events of the past 100 years. His acts had a dramatic impact on the entire world. Everything from the Holocaust, the cold war, the invention and ultimate use of atomic weapons can be traced back to Hitler. TED FLORENCE North York...
...never had a better friend or a more sympathetic President than F.D.R. He never lost the essential focus: Hitler had to be destroyed, his armies had to surrender unconditionally. Only then could the genocide be stopped and liberation secured. It was Hitler and his Nazi thugs who directed the Holocaust. It was the America Roosevelt led that destroyed them. As Simon Wiesenthal wrote, "At the time I was a prisoner in Mauthausen, my last concentration camp, the name Franklin Roosevelt was the hope for freedom for me and my fellow prisoners. For those of us who were liberated...
Some people, looking at the first of these themes, sorrowfully insist that the choice has to be Hitler, Fuhrer of the fascist genocides and refugee floods that plagued the century. He wrought the Holocaust that redefined evil and the war that reordered the world...
There are theologians and historians who have made this point. Most explicit are those who have called him God's punishment of European Jews for their secularization, then gone on to argue that it was mainly because of Hitler and the Holocaust that the biblical prophecy was fulfilled and the state of Israel born--only Western guilt on so massive a scale could have cleared the way to the Promised Land...
...stronger the Western democracies were after the war, as they went on to discredit not only fascism but communism as well, that strength still came at a terrible cost. "How much happier a world it would be if one did not have to mount crusades against racism, segregation, a Holocaust, the extermination of 'inferior peoples,'" notes presidential historian Robert Dallek. "We don't need evil. We'd do fine without Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot. Think of the amount of money and energy used in World War II--if only they could have been used in constructive ways. Good doesn...