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Culture

Raul Hilberg, RIP

Jesse Walker | 8.15.2007 12:56 PM

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Raul Hilberg, one of the greatest historians of the Holocaust, has died of lung cancer. The author of The Destruction of the European Jews arguably did more than anyone else to explore and explain how the bureaucracy of genocide functioned. Rest in peace.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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