The Holocaust is the most researched and written about genocide in
history. Known facts should be beyond dispute. Yet Holocaust memory
is often formed and dictated by governments and others with an
agenda to fulfil, or by deniers who seek to rewrite the past due to
vested interests and avowed prejudices. Legislation can be used to
prosecute hate crime and genocide denial, but it has also been
created to protect the reputation of nation states and the
inhabitants of countries previously occupied and oppressed by the
regime of Nazi Germany. The crimes of the Holocaust are, of course,
rightly seen mainly as the work of the Nazi regime, but there is a
reality that some citizens of subjugated lands participated in,
colluded and collaborated with those crimes, and on occasion
committed crimes and atrocities against Jews independently of the
Nazis. Others facilitated and enabled the Nazis by allowing
industries to work with the Germans; some showed hostility,
indifference and reluctance to assist Jewish refugees, or, due to
antipathy, apathy, greed, self-interest or out-and-out
anti-Semitism they allowed or even encouraged barbaric and cruel
crimes to take place. Survivors of the Holocaust often express a
primary desire that lessons of the past must be learned in order to
reduce the risk of similar crimes reoccurring. Yet anti-Semitism is
still a toxin in the modern world, and racism and hostility to
other communities -including those who suffer in or have fled war
and oppression -can at times appear normalised and socially
acceptable. This book seeks to explore aspects of the Holocaust as
it is remembered and reflect ultimately on parallels with the world
we live in today.
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