(Slate) Ron Rosenbaum - The claims that some are "holocaust-obsessed" is the new fashionable meme for those who don't want to be overly troubled by the memory of the death camps and looming threats of a second holocaust. You can always tell one of this new breed of Holocaust denier by the way they claim that careful parsing of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's threat to "wipe Israel off the map" doesn't really mean he wants to harm a single hair on the head of a single Jew. I discovered that the euphemism "Final Solution" had been used by the Nazi party as far back as 1931. But there were those back then who didn't want to see through the euphemism, just as there are those who don't want to see through the sinister euphemisms in Ahmadinejad's pronouncements today.
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