The road to ruin.At meetings across the country on Holocaust Memorial Day, worthies intoned the “lessons of the Holocaust” and warned that we must “learn from the past”. But ask most historians and they will blanche at the thought of anything as static or as simple as “lessons”. Over the past five decades, “Holocaust studies” have altered almost beyond recognition and explanations for what occurred have changed significantly. In the 1950s, most people regarded the Third Reich as a criminal regime that had been run by crazed sadists. Nazi ... Read More