Volume 49, Number 14 · September 26, 2002
The Crime of the Century
By Istvan Deak
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe
by Norman M. Naimark
Harvard University Press, 248 pp., $24.95
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century
edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack
Berghahn, 401 pp., $69.95; $25.00 (paper)
The Massacre in History
edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts
Berghahn, 296 pp., $69.95; $25.00 (paper)
Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War
by Stuart J. Kaufman
Cornell University Press, 262 pp., $45.00; $19.95 (paper)
Today, fascism, Nazism, and communism inspire only some relatively minor political groups. Although they caused untold destruction, and left behind ugly buildings and tasteless monuments, a young European can grow up in ignorance of his country's fascist or Communist past. Hungarian high school students nonchalantly confuse the 1944–1945 National Socialist dictatorship of Ferenc Szálasi with the 1947–1953 Stalinist dictatorship of Mátyás Rákosi, and the Nazi struggle against Bolshevism with the American struggle against the same enemy. But no Hungarian and, in general, not many Europeans can ignore the ethnic cleansing that has been taking place in Europe for the last one hundred–odd years. Because of ethnic cleansing, millions of people can no longer live where their ancestors did.
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