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COVER INTERVIEW OF


March 20, 2011

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S. Jonathan Wiesen

 

On his book Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich

 

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[T]he Holocaust transformed our whole way of thinking about war and heroism. War is no longer a proving ground for heroism in the same way it used to be. Instead, war now is something that we must avoid at all costs—because genocides often take place under the cover of war. We are no longer all potential soldiers (though we are that too), but we are all potential victims of the traumas war creates. This, at least, is one important development in the way Western populations envision war, even if it does not always predominate in the thinking of our political leaders.

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