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This essay should be about 750 words long, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. It is worth 100 points and should address the topic below.

  1. As mentioned in the commentary, a number of historians regard the Holocaust as a unique occurrence unparalleled by other crimes in human history. On the basis of what you have just learned about the history of anti-Semitism over the last 2,500 years, would you agree with this view? Why or why not? In your answer, you may want to refer briefly to other historical events or genocides as a means of comparison.

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WHY HOLOCAUST WAS A UNIQUE GENOCIDE

Why the Holocaust was A Unique Genocide
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WHY HOLOCAUST WAS A UNIQUE GENOCIDE

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There are evident parallels between the Holocaust and other genocides that have taken
place in history. The Holocaust is considered unique because it is a form of extreme genocide.
There are a large number of elements that are found in other genocides and were also present in
the Holocaust. For instance, there is no gradation of suffering, and the Jews did not experience
anything different from what the Assyrians in Iraq, Tutsis in Rwanda, or what the Russian peasant
in World War II experience. The uniqueness of the Holocaust lies in the fact that every individual
of a targeted group was destined to be killed for the crime of having been born.
Unlike other genocides, the Holocaust took a totality or globality targeting the Jews not
just in Germany, Poland, France, the Soviet Union, but everywhere across the world. The
Holocaust ideology was premised on the ideology to eliminate the Jews because they were
perceived as an impediment to the Nazi's desire to build a new world, a new empire, or ...

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