Omer Bartov Quotes

• . . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives with the same techniques used by modern industry, employing the bureaucratic apparatus readily available to any modern state, is one that can hardly be ignored. Because although history may not repeat itself, it is rare that anything introduced to human history is not used again. Whether the Holocaust was unique or not in terms of its precedents is one question; whether it will remain so is quite another.

  Omer Bartov

  Unique, Holocaust, May

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• Indeed, one of the most frightening consequences of the Holocaust may well be that rather than serving as a warning to preserve humanity at all cost, it has provided a license to privilege physical survival over moral existence.

  Omer Bartov

  Holocaust, Humanity, Survival

  Omer Bartov (2000). “Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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