On Using The Holocaust

Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, examines how and why the Nazi holocaust became The Holocaust.[1] It does this through a detailed examination of how the actual event (the Nazi holocaust) has been transformed into an ideological tactic largely in the service of U.S. foreign and domestic interests (i.e., Israel and the U.S. Jewish organizations respectively). Finkelstein's parents were "survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps," and in the preface to the second edition he describes his "concern" as "restoring the integrity of the historical record and the sanctity of the Jewish people's martyrdom. I deplore the Holocaust industry's corruption of history and memory in the service of an extortion racket."

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