Knowing about the specific camps or even the rough number of the Holocaust isn't actually that important. Knowledge of the reasons behind it, and of other genocidal actions, is.
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The names of the places of murder do not need to be sacralized.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
I'd urge to reflect on the amount of effort that went into hiding the existence and names of those places, and the numbers killed, by the perpetrators
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Replying to @Pinboard
yes, but the process of collective memory has also - understandably - tended to focus on and amplify particular sites in ways that are not always good. Novick makes this argument very well, and better than I can in limited time and characters.
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