Izvestia Russia, April 3 Bush Is No Hitler, And Russia Is Not An Enemy of the U.S. Russian television channels are more and more insistently drawing parallels between Bush and Hitler, the Holocaust and "massive extermination of Iraqi civilians" by allied troops.
Archeologists working at a site formally known as Ponar in Lithuania have uncovered a massive underground tunnel that Holocaust prisoners dug with spoons at least 70 years ago, the New York Times reports.
He described the Holocaust as "so massive and egregious that there are few if any other situations that rise to the same level of injustice".
What I have learned as a researcher of Yiddish who has lived in Lithuania for 11 years is that the obsession with finding some excuse – preferably that excuse – for massive local participation in the Holocaust is very much alive today among the elite classes of politicians, academics (especially historians) and media people throughout the region.
In his address, Dr. Linus Pauling said that we can expect a worldwide catastrophe but that it will probably be massive starvation rather than a nuclear holocaust.
Washington believed that the best way to deter the feared expansion of Soviet Communism was through NATO, the massive procurement of arms, and the threat of triggering a nuclear holocaust.
Shostakovich began the decade with his massive choral symphony Babi Yar, a lament for Jewish victims of the holocaust.
Hitler's propagandists built upon centuries of anti-Jewish sentiment to foment hatred and foster a massive climate of indifference to the fate of Europe's Jews that ultimately led to the Holocaust.
Any attempt to portray the perpetrators of the Holocaust as human, such as the recent film of Bernard Schlink's book The Reader, provokes massive controversy.
"This is part of a massive effort at restitution that is very late but fortunately not too late for hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors still alive, many of whom are in great need".
