It's what is most frightening about it, for me. Genocide and horrific atrocities have been committed throughout history. The Romans did it. The Muslims did it. The Crusaders were very good at it, and so were the early European colonizers. We Americans certainly did our part as well.
But never before did a modern, industrialized, "civilized" country harness its national industry to facilitate the bureaucratic, mechanized elimination of an entire people. If someone had written about such a thing in 1930, it would have been dismissed as the craziest hack sci-fi that could never happen.
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It's what is most frightening about it, for me. Genocide and horrific atrocities have been committed throughout history. The Romans did it. The Muslims did it. The Crusaders were very good at it, and so were the early European colonizers. We Americans certainly did our part as well.
But never before did a modern, industrialized, "civilized" country harness its national industry to facilitate the bureaucratic, mechanized elimination of an entire people. If someone had written about such a thing in 1930, it would have been dismissed as the craziest hack sci-fi that could never happen.