It was only after the unrivalled evil of the Holocaust that the victims began to tell their own story, and advocates of Nazism felt the need to deny that it had ever happened. It was a unique episode of industrial destruction of an entire people, which changed the world’s perspective of genocide. Even during the war, when Americans were asked what should be done with the Japanese after a decisive victory, ten to fifteen per cent volunteered the response that they should be exterminated.
