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GERMAR RUDOLF, RESISTANCE IS OBLIGATORYwas “given two missions – to bear witness and to help animals as theyhelped me”? 21 Did he feel let down when he discovered that Misha wasnot Jewish after all and was a total fraud?More serious nonsense is Wiesel’s insistence that the Holocaust isunique. In President’s Commission on the Holocaust (September 27,1979) he writes: 22“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic exterminationof six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators as a centralact of state during the Second World War; […] It was a crimeunique in the annals of human history, different not only in the quantityof violence – the sheer numbers killed – but in its manner andpurpose as a mass criminal enterprise organized by the state againstdefenseless civilian populations. The decision was to kill every Jeweverywhere in Europe: the definition of Jew as target for deathtranscended all boundaries.”Deborah Lipstadt and other Holocaust experts follow Wiesel’s claimof uniqueness saying, “The aim of The Final Solution was the destructionof the entire Jewish people.” Furthermore she states that “Killingall Jews – irrespective of age, location, education, profession, religiousorientation, political outlook, or ethnic self-identification – was the priorityin the race war that Nazi Germany conducted.” 23 If it was really apriority, why didn’t Hitler move against the Hungarian Jews, likeWiesel, until the spring of 1944?Of course the claim to uniqueness is nonsense or self-evident at best;every historical event is unique or has unique features. By defining theHolocaust with a capital H, by defining it to refer to six million peopleof one special group, and by defining it as a deliberate, nationalistic,top-priority policy of a state causes the definition itself to be “unique.”But arguing against Holocaust uniqueness, which is easy to do, immediatelyleads to defamation with charges of Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism. As Norman Finkelstein has pointed out in his chapter “Hoax-212223Ibid., p. 247.www.ushmm.org/research/library/faq/languages/en/06/01/commissionSee Paul Grubach’s review of Deborah E. Lipstadt, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assaulton Truth and Memory (The Free Press, 1993) atwww.inconvenienthistory.codoh.com/archive/2011/volume_3/number_2/jewish_conspiracy_theory.php17