![]() ![]() Thoughtful new explorations of the topic from the likes of Ken Burns and Tom Stoppard have recently premiered on television, on Broadway and off books about the Holocaust and/or the Nazis regularly dominate Amazon’s “Best Sellers in Jewish History” list. The Shoah is an equally prominent presence in cultural life. ![]() A participant in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol wore a sweatshirt emblazoned “Camp Auschwitz.” Marchers in the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, displayed swastika flags and pins and threatened Jews. And then there are those who admire and identify with the Nazis directly. President Trump’s disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn claimed last year that Republicans were being marched to “death camps.” Opponents of vaccine and mask mandates have sported yellow Stars of David. ![]() Politicians, provocateurs, and protesters of various kinds have cast themselves as Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. The Holocaust has long loomed large in the American imagination, but in recent years it has come to seem ubiquitous, with Holocaust-related symbols and slogans infiltrating political discourse, flooding social media, and even spilling over into the streets. ![]()
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