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...Many people say the central event of the 20th century was the Holocaust," Goldhagen said. "This is not my view, although many people say this...
...Goldhagen discussed the perception that the Holocaust, which killed 6 million Jews during the Second World War, was the watershed of this century...
This was one of the primary questions addressed at a symposium on the New England Holocaust Memorial yesterday at Faneuil Hall. Among the panelists were Associate Professor of Government Daniel J. Goldhagen '81; James E. Young, associate professor of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Margot Stern Strom, executive director of the educational non-profit organization Facing History and Ourselves; and Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League...
According to Goldhagen, most people think the Holocaust was a central event not because Jews suffered, but because the Holocaust was perpetrated by a Western European country deemed to be at the pinnacle of civilization. This contrast challenges our notion of progress, Goldhagen said...
...Goldhagen said the memorial is brilliant in itspedagogical function because it forces people tothink about freedom and dictatorship on thefreedom trail...