The Holocaust Quotes

“This Catholic assault on the Third Republic and Jews looked directly forward to Vichy cooperation with Nazi Germany during World War II and was a potent instance of the manner in which Catholic anti-Semitism prepared the context for abetting genocide.”
― Jeremy Black, The Holocaust: History & Memory

“Concern about the “enemy within” was linked to a politics of paranoia. The conspiracy theories that had been pushed to the fore in Europe at the time of the French Revolutionary Wars in the 1790s, a period in which there was a widespread belief in secret societies, some allegedly long-lasting, influenced the subsequent account of both present politics and the recent past. Earlier concerns about secret movements, notably the Freemasons and the Illuminati, both supposedly responsible for the French Revolution, were played through a new context from the 1790s, and these concerns were made more open and “democratic,” in large part through the culture of print and rising literacy.1”
― Jeremy Black, The Holocaust: History & Memory

“Ruth Kluger’s Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered.”
― Jeremy Black, The Holocaust: History & Memory