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“. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same techniques used by modern industry, employing the bureaucratic apparatus readily available to any modern state, is one that can hardly be ignored. Because although history may not repeat itself, it is rare that anything introduced to human history is not used again. Whether the Holocaust was unique or not in terms of its precedents is one question; whether it will remain so is quite another.”

Quote by Omer Bartov

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Omer Bartov is a renowned Jewish historian known for his extensive research on the history of Nazi Germany and the Jews in Eastern Europe. His work covers a wide range of themes from World War II to the Cold War period. more

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