"Like it or not, the [Holocaust] must and will dominate future events. Its centrality in the creative endeavors of our contemporaries remains undisputed. Philosophers and social scientists, psychologists and moralists, theologians and artists: all have termed it a watershed in the annals of mankind. What was comprehensible before Treblinka is comprehensible no longer. After Treblinka, man's ability to cope with his condition was shattered; he was pushed to his limits and beyond. Whatever has happened since must therefore be judged in the light of Treblinka. Forgetfulness is no solution."
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U.S. President's Commission on the Holocaust, Report to the President (1979), pp. i-ii.
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The Holocaust
, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Known to the Nazis as the Final Solution, it had been preceded by worsening conditions for Jews in Germany since the Nazis seized power in 1933 and events such as Kristallnacht, the Third Reich's multiple s against Jews in November 1938. Between 1941 and 1945, across , Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carri
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