The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems

Evidence

I suggest in the conclusion that the Holocaust was an outcome of a unique encounter between factors by themselves quite ordinary and common; and that the possibility of such an encounter could be blamed to a very large extent on the emancipation of the political state, with its monopoly of means of violence and its audacious engineering ambitions, from social control – following the step-by-step dismantling of all non-political power resources and institutions of social self-management. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 29 (#expands, via linked claim)

The murderous compound was made of a typically modern ambition of social design and engineering, mixed with the typically modern concentration of power, resources and managerial skills. In Gordon’s terse and unforgettable phrase, ‘when the millions of Jewish and other victims pondered their own imminent deaths and wondered “why must I die, since I have done nothing to deserve it?” probably the simplest answer would have been that power was totally concentrated in one man, and that man happened to hate their “race”.’ — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Minority treaties could single out groups for expulsion rather than protect them; The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 29; Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224 (+8 more)

Related

• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions (similarity 0.90)
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust (similarity 0.85)
• The Holocaust is a by-product of runaway modernist design (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created (similarity 0.84)
• The Holocaust reveals civilization’s capacity for industrialized destruction as inseparable from its progress. (similarity 0.84)
• The social conditions enabling the Holocaust may still be present. (similarity 0.83)
• The Holocaust functions as a laboratory test revealing modernity’s hidden capacities. (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone (similarity 0.82)
• The Holocaust fused antisemitism with social and political mechanisms of an entirely different character. (similarity 0.81)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress (similarity 0.80)
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust (similarity 0.80)
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust’s methods emerged from expert judgments on feasibility, not from Hitler’s orders. (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror (similarity 0.79)
• The Holocaust exemplifies modern bureaucratic rationality applied to maximum-efficiency ends. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 29
• Social engineering ambition combined with concentrated power produced the Holocaust #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 224
• Modernity’s institutions actively enabled and supplied the Holocaust #expands (0.72) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 251
• Jews were socially suspended in a void defined by the state #qualifies (0.72)
• The Holocaust was rational social management in scientific dress #expands (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 207