Raul Hilberg was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. According to Wikipedia he was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. In 1961 Hilberg released his book, The Destruction of the European Jews. He revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. Today I will…
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Origin of the Term ‘Holocaust’
How did the word Holocaust come to be the term for the supposed atrocities done by the Nazis in WW2? Elie Wiesel, a famous survivor of Auschwitz/Birkenau coined the term. He was one of the first to bring his story to market and he was the most famous survivors of his time. Propped up by…