Letter to the Editor

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The notion that the Holocaust should be the standard against which every other genocide is measured may be Anton Weiss-Wendt's view. It is not mine. Nor do I think that the Holocaust was the twentieth century's most horrific genocide. A Century of Genocide is quite deliberately a comparative study that establishes no single case as the central model. And it certainly does not create a hierarchy of victims. The misleading character of Wendt's review [HGS 19:1 (Spring 2005)] is more expressive of fears of comparative analysis than of a careful reading and critique of my book.