Europe’s Holocaust-centric memory silences its colonial legacy as race denial.

Evidence

This stress on the Holocaust, however, does account for what Stuart Hall has characterized as historical amnesia, the now deafening silence in Europe concerning its colonial legacy. Colonization, on this view, was a settler phenomenon, the Holocaust a local one. Colonialism implicated at most some European states and populations, the Holocaust marked them all, one way or another. … Natives are just that, native to other places, alien, foreign. Jews and Gypsies and homosexuals were Europe’s other, its own strangeness, its own crippling limb it sought to amputate. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 826

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the ‘crippling limb it sought to amputate’ imagery against the silencing of race discussed earlier in the book; also resonates with the Home Boy theme of internal vs external othering. — connects to: Holocaust memorialization lets Europe deny its colonial racial past — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 826; Europe’s Holocaust focus erases its colonial race history — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 823; Amnesty and concealment, not active remembrance, are the historical norm in Europe — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 1211
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 826