The War and the Holocaust. Questions about the Past and the Future

How did people become mass murderers during the Holocaust?

Why did the Nazis want to kill the Jews specifically?

How is the Holocaust a unique event?

Were there differences in the policy of extermination of the Jewish and non-Jewish civilians during the German occupation?

How can one explain collaboration of local population with the Nazi regime in the persecution of the Jews? What motivated people to risk their lives to save Jews? How can the passivity of the bystanders to Nazi crimes be explained?

Could the Holocaust have happened without Hitler?

Where was God during the Holocaust?

How did the non-Jewish population respond to the murder of the Jews?

How did Christian denominations respond to the Holocaust?

Should there be limits on the artistic representation of the Holocaust?

What happened to the concepts of good and evil after the Holocaust?

Is antisemitism an eternal phenomenon?

What is the reason for the rise of antisemitism in the USSR after the Second World War?

What helped people to maintain human dignity under occupation and persecution?

How can the trend of suppression of the Holocaust in the Soviet period be explained?

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