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Why is the Holocaust is considered a unique event in modern European History?

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The Holocaust was carried out on ideological grounds. Most previous genocides were carried out because a people or tribe was thought to be a 'nuisance' or 'in the way' (of some development of other).
In other cases the extermination process has usually stopped when the victims ceased to be 'a nuisance'. In the case of the Jews, their crime in Nazi eyes was their mere existence.
The Nazis knew perfectly well that the Jews were harmless, but chose to see them as a threat.
The Holocaust was carried out with industrial efficiency and fanatical ideological zeal.

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