The Holocaust

The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and genocide of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. In these claims it is examined as a product of modern rational society and state power, and as an event integral to understanding modernity rather than an isolated aberration.

Claims that use this term

• The Holocaust demonstrated how to liquidate minority and statelessness problems
• The Holocaust question must keep its full weight and horror
• The Holocaust must be read as integral to modernity, not as its aberration.
• The Holocaust is a product of modern rational society, not a Jewish problem alone
• The Holocaust resulted from an unchained state wielding violence and engineering ambitions
• The Holocaust combined long-festering social tensions with the rational instruments modernity created