May 28, 1999

A Scholar Argues That Americans Are Obsessed With the Holocaust

By JEFF SHARLET

By making the Nazis' crimes the benchmark for oppression, he writes, we risk trivializing other atrocities

Hermann Goring never intended the death camps to act as classrooms, and people weren't sanctified by gas chambers, they died in them.

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