Singularity and its relativization

Considers postwar German historians' treatment of the Nazi regime and particularly the regime's attitude to Jews. Some "scholars" have tried to undermine the uniqueness of the Holocaust and to erode the ideological factors in Nazism, including anti-Semitism, which led up to it. This constitutes an attempt to "de-demonise" the Third Reich. In fact anti-Semitism was central to Nazi ideology. Attempts to relativise the Holocaust by comparing it to other genocides are viewed as attempts to trivialise it.