The Holocaust

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This paper examines the argument of Wolfgang Benz about the legal framework that was passed in Germany leading up to the Holocaust. In particular, it notes how Benz explains the rise of National Socialism and the policy they instituted leading to the Holocaust in terms of the institutional mechanism of the Third Reich's systematic legal implementation of laws to legitimate the structural dehumanization of the European Jewish community. It also looks at how Benz explores this legal framework in terms of a number of developments in the law in Germany beginning in the early 1930s and continuing into the war.

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"The European Holocaust of the twentieth century represents both a singular event in the course of modern European history and a significant global event of the twentieth century. The complexity of such a historical event, such as the bureaucratic and technological administration of extermination, has made this particular historical moment one of the most difficult to understand and comprehend. Nonetheless, a thorough understanding of the historical documentation can only assist us in coming to comprehend one of the most barbaric moments in modern human history. Wolfgang Benz explains the rise of National Socialism and the policy they instituted leading to the Holocaust in terms of the institutional mechanism of the Third Reich's systematic legal implementation of laws to legitimate the structural dehumanization of the European Jewish community. "

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