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    Re: Living in a state of irony: "Ukraine; the Holocaust Ground Zero" Archived Message

    Posted by Keith-264 on September 6, 2023, 8:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Living in a state of irony: "Ukraine; the Holocaust Ground Zero""

    The Destruction of the European Jews (2003) by Raul Hilberg

    Wendy Lower, historian and author of several books on the second world war and the Holocaust, calls them “the missing missing” – the Jewish men, women and children murdered in mass open-air shootings by Nazi death squads in such large, unrecorded numbers in so many places that even finding out quite how many were killed and where – let alone such identifying details as their names – is an almost impossible task.

    Really? She could have asked Raul. What would be worth knowing would the balance between antisemitism and utilitarianism (i.e. liberalism) in the decisions to exterminate people.

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