Negative Space: Holocaust
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- How ‘The Zone Of Interest’ Makes Jews And All Of Us Into Nazis
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“There are two kinds of Holocaust stories, the particular, which deal with the realities of what happened, with the Jews, with the Nazis and their collaborators, and those that make all of us into Nazis.”
- President Bush Visits the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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“Today we call what happened ‘genocide.’ But when the Holocaust started, this word did not yet exist. In a 1941 radio address, Churchill spoke of the horrors the Nazis were visiting on innocent civilians in Russia. He said, ‘We are in the presence of a crime without a name.’ It is an apt description of the evil that followed the swastika.”
A meme running around comparing what President Trump wrote in the Holocaust memorial guestbook to what Senator Obama wrote shows a surprising humility in President Trump.