incredibility of the Holocaust

In 1951, Hannah Arendt's classic study "The study of totalitarianism" the incredibility of the Holocaust and the unimaginativeness of the normal people were dominant themes. The author of this study raises the question of whether the general refusal to credit the incredible horror of the Holocaust can be fully discussed or fully understood without concentrating attention on the Jewish identity of the victims. He suggests that the inability of the victims themselves to credit the threat and then the actuality of destruction was function of Jewish history and Jewish sensibility