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This problem underscores a more fundamental question: whether the Holocaust can ( or to what extent it should ) be made explicable through a social-scientific, historical account.

Speaking against what he terms " quasi mystical association ," historian Nicolas Kinloch writes that " with the publication of Raul Hilberg ’ s monumental book ," the subject had risen to be considered " an event requiring more, rather than less, stringent historical analysis.

" Citing Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer's statement that " if the Holocaust was caused by humans, then it is as understandable as any other human event ," Kinloch finally concludes that this " will itself help to make any repetition of the Nazi genocide less likely.