GRGR(6) - section 8 (#3)

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

Paul schrieb:
> First time I heard the word holocaust used in the upper case sense  was in
> the early  sixties and it took a couple of seconds to register what was
> being talked about. The thing itself was of course well known to everyone
> by this time.

 I still remember my irritation when I read - must have been in '94 - the word  
 "holocaust" in J.H. Franklin's "Reconstruction: After the Civil War" (Chicago  
 1961). There it refers to the situation in the South after the Civil War.

 Yours, Kai