Word: holocaust
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...imagine a hundred Vietnam Memorials arrayed on the Mall. The earth would sink beneath the weight of such sorrow. Yet it would take that many Vietnam Memorials to list the names of those killed in the Holocaust. And it would still not be enough. There would still be nearly 200,000 left uncommemorated, more than have died of AIDS in America in all the years of the plague...
...Holocaust is a malignity of such dimensions that one must resort to mental tricks to appreciate its scale and scope. Yet, one is compelled to confront its scale and scope -- and single-mindedness -- in order to understand its uniqueness...
...atrocities of ethnic conflict -- today, Bosnia -- are described in terms of death camps and genocide. But this use of terms borrowed from the Holocaust betrays a poverty of language. The Nazi achievement lay not in building barbaric prison camps or seizing villages through expulsion and terror. That is an old story, terrible but old: the story of ethnic war. The Nazi achievement lay in constructing an industry of death never before -- or since -- seen. An industry of continental size complete with railways, death camps, gas chambers and crematoria. An industry whose raw material was Jews and whose product was corpses...
...when victimhood carries high status, the Jews are much and grotesquely envied for having suffered the greatest crime in history. Hence the common attempt to universalize the Holocaust: "It was a war against the Jews, but it could have been against any other nation...
...this important? For the lessons one draws from the Holocaust. With the opening of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the air is full of lessons: lessons about man's capacity for evil, about the dangers of intolerance, about the redemptive power of democracy...