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The Neocons and Holocaust Revisionism in Eastern Europe, Continued
Dovid Katz
July 26, 2014
Part Two
by Dovid Katz To read Part One, click here. IT HAS BECOME WIDELY UNDERSTOOD that the unique lessons of the Holocaust, including recognition of the potential morphing of racial hate into a program of genocide, are of major educational importance for inoculating future generations against its happening to anyone else, anywhere else. Reflecting on the Holocaust as a major chapter of barbarism in European history also gives us a needed pause to help assure the retention of essential ethics and standards of humanity in our pursuit of scientific and social progress. [caption id=“attachment_30680” align=“alignleft” width=“600”]

Dovid Katz is a Brooklyn-born, Vilnius-based independent Yiddish studies and Holocaust scholar, and the editor of Defending History.com. He is at work on his Yiddish Cultural Dictionary.
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