Do We Focus Too Much on Auschwitz?

Do We Focus Too Much on Auschwitz?

Liam Hoare - Forward

http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/215955/do-we-focus-too-much-on-auschwitz

... Speaking with reference to his forthcoming book, "Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews 1933-49" - which is due to be published in September and will seek to demonstrate the surprising lack of inevitability in the events that culminated in the Holocaust - [Prof. David] Cesarani said that while "Auschwitz is tremendously important, it has created the sense that the Holocaust started in 1933 and inevitably led to Auschwitz." Rather, he said, "anti-Jewish policy evolved haphazardly between 1933 and 1937, when organizations and individuals competed with each other to deal with the Jews." ... At the start of the Second World War, the Nazi regime had no clear policy for dealing with "the Jewish question" ...