What was the Purpose of the Holocaust?

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RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY:: TOWARD THE FINAL SOLUTION

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To allow us to witness the true nature of absolute submission to a nation-state. The Holocaust depicted the ugliness, futility and meaninglessness of abject submission: sacrificial death stripped of words like honor, heroism and glory.

The Holocaust was a critique of warfare.
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The CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is pleased to present the Richard W. Smith Lecture in Culture Studies with special guest, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg. Psychologist, historian and leading authority on Hitler and Nazism