Chapter 1
“The Holocaust, to be sure, transformed the entire 20th century, sweeping aside the Enlightenment hope that evil somehow could be permanently vanished from the face of the Earth, demonstrating there is no war to end all war, that the struggle against the basest tendencies of our nature must continue forever and ever.”
- President Bill Clinton
What was the Holocaust?
The term "Holocaust" describes the planned, government sponsored persecution and attempted annihilation of the Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime in Germany between the years 1933 and 1945