The Holocaust was a Symptom of a Larger Malady

As much as we would love to say that the Nazi Holocaust was unique, it is not entirely so.

N.B. — I had been thinking for awhile about posting this paper on Medium, and the recent Russian atrocities in Ukraine have forced the issue. I wrote this years ago for a post-graduate philosophy course. The professor, from Germany, didn’t appreciate my argument because he wanted to believe that the Nazi Holocaust was a historical event that could not be duplicated and therefore we do not bear…