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October 28, 2019

Germany’s Problem Is Not Remembering the Holocaust. Its Problem Is Misusing the Memory

The Shoah did not target “human beings.” It targeted Jews.

In a recent essay titled “The Vanity of Guilt,” the conservative German journalist Andreas Lombard criticized the attitude toward the Holocaust, and Holocaust guilt, in his country, and particularly the ways in which the Shoah has been used to justify Angela Merkel’s immigration policies. Michel Gurfinkiel, calling the essay simultaneously “close to the truth” and “manifestly erroneous,” responds:

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