Searching for meaning in the Holocaust

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Reflects on possible meanings of the Holocaust (historical, theological, and ethical), its causes and lessons, and relentless attempts by scholars and writers to find its meaning. Based on interviews with survivors, memoirs, and works on perpetrators, victims, and bystanders, finds no significant meaning in the Holocaust. Contends that the main cause of the genocide was not antisemitism, eliminationist or other, but rather bureaucratic dehumanization and a spirit of indifference of 20th-century civilization. Dismisses the idea of any "lessons of the Holocaust, " but supports the preservation of its memory. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)