cunning of history: the Holocaust and the American future

A reinterpretation of the meaning of Auschwitz. In Rubenstein's view Auschwitz was part of a continuum of slavery stretching back to antiquity and was developed by the Judeo-Christian religious tradition. "The culture that made the death camps possible was not only indigenous to the West but was an outcome, albeit unforseen and unintended, of its fundamental religious traditions.