Big questions like 'how was the holocaust possible' are often best answered by looking at history in detail, examining the minute. Than we find that de fascist bureaucrats where not that innovative. They did not have to invent much but could base their actions on presidents, a reservoir of experience build up over more than a thousand years. From the 4th century the Christian missionaries told the Jews "you may not live among us as Jews". The Secular governments who followed them from the late middle-aged decided "you may not live among us" and de Nazis finely decreed "you may not live". This suggest a natural progression leading to the extermination; from conversion to expulsion, to a territorial solution (final solution).
This reservoir of experience, this memory, remains with us today. For perhaps the fascist bureaucracy and its Endlösung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish question) can't be separated from present-day policy on minorities in Europe.
From the documentary: Shoah
Interviewer: Claude Lanzmann
12 сен 2024
