Word: holocaustic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committed to the defense of allies against another superpower, the Soviet Union, and its clients. The chances of shooting incidents multiplied greatly. The terrible power of modern weapons increased the premium on fast action, which could not wait for an old-fashioned declaration of war. The threat of nuclear holocaust dictated the need to limit whatever wars did start. That also worked against declarations of war and simultaneously made difficult, if not impossible, a clean-cut victory...
...forbidden it? If a man murders someone, may the state kill the killer in retribution? May government employees be forced to have their urine tested to search for the trace of drugs? May American Nazis march in an Illinois suburb that is home to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust? May a man be arrested for performing a homosexual act in his own home? Is it right to promote a woman ahead of an equally qualified man in order to redress past inequities toward women...
...sending of innocent people to death camps or the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance fighter. The lives lost in the death camps should not be elevated to a status above that of Moulin and others murdered by the Nazis. Recognizing Barbie's responsibility for non-Holocaust atrocities in no way trivializes the role he played in the Holocaust...
...articulated the consciousness of responsibility, that's what he should be honored for," says Foxman, who is himself a Holocaust survivor...
...vast majority of Germans seek reconciliation with the victim nations. They are also inclined to forget the past and tend to resent the unceasing recollection of it; it is against these tendencies that von Weizsacker made this speech," says Erich Goldhagen, who teaches a course on the Holocaust...