ABSTRACT
History has known many cases of minority groups defined as “others” by majority groups and becoming as a result the targets of discriminatory policies. But very rare are the cases, at least in the modern period, when a minority group has been represented as being, at one and the same time, both so radically different and so threatening that it became the object of an implacable extermination. Such was the monstrous peculiarity of Nazi antisemitism, with Auschwitz its outcome and culmination.
