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In warfare, dying for one's country is often conceived as honorable and noble.
The Holocaust came into being in order to portray "dying for a country" in a different light.
The Holocaust presented suffering, degradation and death at the hands of a nation-state--without sugar-coating.
The Holocaust existed in order to tell us something about the reality of death in battle: portraying death at the hands of the nation-state stripped of words like as loyalty, honor, duty and nobility.
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