When Polish Jew Raphael Lemkin coined the term "Holocaust" in 1944 to denote the Nazi mass murder of Jews, he would probably have agreed with those scholars who argue that its uniqueness lies in its detailed planning aimed at the destruction of a biologically defined group and its implementation using administrative and industrial means by a highly civilsed and culturally renowned nation. He would, it is argued, also have insisted on its place within the category of ideologically motivated genocides.