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Posted by: oaklandp8ntbalr
The holocaust was systemic, deliberate, extermination of a specific race solely based on a single characteristic person.
Genocide.
That's what is scary about the Holocaust. The fact that we now have the capabilities to exterminate a specific race.
I think it could be something like this. The Holocaust embodied western practices: Systematic record keeping, ruthless efficiency, etc. It made people question whether those were such great things after all and probably hit closer to home than the Gulag did.
Not that I have any right to say anything, considering I wasn't close to being alive at the time and I'm largely ignorant of world history.