Because, as one character explains, "murder, the unique crime, is a paradigm of its age".
Both sides speak, both sides are considered, and the realities of the nuances of this very unique crime are taken into consideration," she said.
"This was a unique crime," said Paul Wood, the White Plains executive officer, in a recent telephone interview, "totally out of character for the city".
The impact of this cold war victors' version of the past has been to relativise the unique crimes of Nazism, bury those of colonialism and feed the idea that any attempt at radical social change will always lead to suffering, killing and failure.
Nearly 66 years after the end of World War II, Germany's Nazi past continues to reveal itself here in ways large and small, and on an almost regular basis, often shedding new light on the unique crimes of those who ran the Third Reich and those who came to power after its fall.
This unique Shanghai crime rose to manic proportions when the temperature fell below freezing and branches broke easily and then disappeared almost entirely in the summer months when the more flexible branches were tricky to snap.
The archeologist Joanne Farchakh has a unique answer to a unique crime.
But Oakland's unique crime problem means the cuts have more far-reaching consequences.
As enlightened Germans, the seminar-givers see the Holocaust as a unique crime committed mainly against the Jews.
It might sound like an unlikely combination, but Phil Rickman's unique crime series is subtle, atmospheric and haunting.
