[maskil]

Indeed, however there was something uniquely terrible about the Nazi atrocities.

The Nazis invaded countries and then systematically got to the task of murdering their entire totally harmless Jewish population, simply because of their ethnicity.

There was no possible military or tribal gain or anything, it was just pure racial hatred.

What's especially horrifying is that Germany was a very advanced civilization using sophisticated and systematic means to accomplish this.

[soperj]

They really aren't unique. It's happened in many many different places. It honestly is just what humans are capable of.