The Holocaust is the only example of genocide occurring between &quot;enlightened&quot; and &quot;civilized&quot; people who were educated and aware of the world around them. It's thus drastically distinct from ooga booga tribes killing one another, or even something like Roman conquest and American westward expansion where the killings were seen as morally justified because of a very real technological and civilizational gap. A Holocaust victim was in a position to contribute far more to humanity's understanding of the world than Grug, victim of river tribe c. 89000 BC, and the Holocaust perpatrators had more than enough information at their disposal to understand why such a pointless tribalistic murder is unconscionable. <|endoftext|> 