Ten Foreboding Preludes to the Holocaust

Like any historical tragedy, the Holocaust can only be viewed in hindsight, and its gruesome totality—11 million dead, six million of them Jewish—often makes attempts to understand its perpetrators’ actions and rationales seem perverse, even insulting. An argument can be made that only pure evil can cause such an immense manmade disaster, and that explaining […]

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