Historical Dictionary of the Holocaust (2nd edition)

The Jewish holocaust is a difficult, upsetting and emotive topic. Despite mass killings having taken place before and since, it is this event which has become an ingrained part of human knowledge. Concentration camps for example, had been used before during the Boer War, and by US officials against Native Americans, yet the term “concentration camp”, is now automatically associated with Nazi Germany and the “Final Solution” policy. Perhaps it is the scope of the atrocity, the numbers of those murdered. As Fischel notes, it was the first time that an entire race was targeted by one state for systematic...