Moment Israel stops to say ‘Never Again’ sent shivers down spine

Andrew Nagorski’s article, ‘Silence in the Face of History’s Worst Evil’ (Irish Examiner, May 6), is a timely reminder that the Nazi Holocaust on European Jews remains unique in the awful catalog of historical genocides.

This is indisputable, given the industrial nature, diffuse demographic dispersal and ultimate rapidity of the slaughter.

It is reinforced by Nagorski’s in-depth research which shows that prior to former Auschwitz guard, Reinhold Hanning’s, ‘apology’ at his trial last week, every previous defendant, from the Nuremberg trials, to Adolf Eichmann, denied any guilt for participating in the mass-slaughter of European Jews.