Polish-Jewish Relations: 1,300 Keyword-Phrase-Indexed Book Reviews (by Jan Peczkis)

The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, with a New Preface, by Charles S. Maier. 1998

Inadvertently Shows the Unfairness of Holocaust Overattention and the Slighting of Other Peoples’ Genocides

The real purpose of the Historikerstreit was to enforce Holocaust orthodoxy, especially the well-worn notion that the Holocaust was exceptional. Much of this book is an attack on German historian Ernst Nolte, especially for daring to compare Communist genocides with the Nazi German-made Shoah (double genocide and the Holocaust obfuscation bogeyman). It includes the mystification of the Holocaust, and it repeats the myth that all Jews were targeted for extermination. [They were not. But even if they were, it would not make the Holocaust one iota more significant than, for example, than the Polokaust (Polocaust).]

MEMORIAL MUSEUMS FOR ALL GENOCIDES SORELY NEEDED

Author Maier cites Richard Lukas and his seminal work, THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST:

https://www.jewsandpolesdatabase.org/2019/11/04/polokaust-good-introduction-lukas/

In doing so, Maier inadvertently shows the reductio ad absurdum of the Jews-are-special mentality. It provokes victimhood competition. Maier writes, “If Polish Americans claim their own ‘forgotten Holocaust‘, what recognition should they enjoy? Do Armenians and Cambodians also have a right to publicly funded holocaust museums? And do we need memorials to Seventh-Day Adventists and homosexuals for their persecution at the hands of the Third Reich?” (p. 165). We certainly do.

Genocide-Recognition Equality Now!