concludes that both Nazism and Communism were totalitarian movements that sought to eliminate all restraints upon the power of the State
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Nazi regime adopted the system of repression from those of the Soviet Union, in particular from the Gulag system
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the Nazis were sincere in their use ‘socialist’, which they saw as inseparable from the adjective national, and meant it as a socialism of the master race, rather than the socialism of the "underprivileged and oppressed seeking justice and equal righ
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objects to Courtois' arguments, "Third Reich's four-year extermination machine, overshadows any other calamity, even when numbers of victims are the main concern", and that peasants in Russia "were not targeted in toto for extermination as were Jews
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radical anti-semitism had led to holocaust, not Hitler’s own views
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saw Nazi regime as too disorganised for totalitarian purposes, instead argued that Hitler’s utopian outlook caused the holocaust, but he was not the founder of it - no written order from Hitler for the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"
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calls holocaust ‘uniquely unique’
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‘would suggest retaining the term genocide for ‘partial’ murder and the term ‘holocaust’ for total destruction’
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memorials represent societal trends and beliefs, thus, when these change or differ, memorials become controversial - Act as a blank canvas
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‘forms of meaning in war memorials are influenced by reinterpretations of history that enhance, contradict, or deemphasize the status of past wars’
