Holocaust

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

FrodeauxB at aol.com schrieb:
>[quotating me]:  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.
> Kai-

>[and asking]: why?


I'll tell you: Simply because I thought the adequate use of the term should be 
strictly limited to the genocide on the European Jews. In this country, where 
newspapers write of "Huehner-KZs" (- "Concentration camps for chicken"), the few 
people who care about history at all, are touchy with these things.
Back then I didn't know that actually the term - that's what Paul was hinting at 
- wasn't clearly defined in the early 60s the way it is today.
Now you know why.
                        KFL