Ferguson precisely explains the horrors endured and does little to distort how truly awful the Holocaust was. In the eyes of Ferguson the Holocaust surpasses all other genocides by being the first industrialized genocide. Ferguson also describes the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis was unique in the fact that it was carried out by such educated people. Ferguson at one point describes the invasion of a Polish village, “...they were to round up the villages 1800 or so Jews. They were to pick out the able-bodied young men who could be used as forced laborers, or work Jews. They would then put the rest, the sick, the elderly, the women and the children onto trucks and drive them to a quarry in the nearby forest. There they would shoot them all”. The intense description and word choice done by Ferguson helped correctly describe the brutality of the Holocaust and also gives him credibility from other
Ferguson precisely explains the horrors endured and does little to distort how truly awful the Holocaust was. In the eyes of Ferguson the Holocaust surpasses all other genocides by being the first industrialized genocide. Ferguson also describes the genocide against the Jews by the Nazis was unique in the fact that it was carried out by such educated people. Ferguson at one point describes the invasion of a Polish village, “...they were to round up the villages 1800 or so Jews. They were to pick out the able-bodied young men who could be used as forced laborers, or work Jews. They would then put the rest, the sick, the elderly, the women and the children onto trucks and drive them to a quarry in the nearby forest. There they would shoot them all”. The intense description and word choice done by Ferguson helped correctly describe the brutality of the Holocaust and also gives him credibility from other