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Why read documents from the Holocaust? What do these details matter now? Contemporary society has become so numbed to violence by its repetition and its constant portrayal, that the Holocaust is sometimes seen as just another historical nightmare, to be acknowledged but also avoided.
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Hochstadt, S. (2004). Introduction. In: Hochstadt, S. (eds) Sources of the Holocaust. Documents in History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21440-8_1
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