ABSTRACT
The Nazi Holocaust of the Jews was history's most extreme case of genocide. The state-sponsored attempt at total extermination by industrialized murder of unarmed millions in less than five years has few parallels. Hitler praised Arminius, who annihilated ancient Roman legions, as "the first architect of our liberty", and the aggressive medieval monarch, Charlemagne, as "one of the greatest men in world history". The Pol Pot regime exhibited some familiar obsessions of genocide perpetrators. Its guide to Cambodia's ancient temples, for instance, revealed its own official preoccupation with antiquity. Like the Nazis and Khmer Rouge, Hutu Power's genocidal ideology combined conceptions of history and race with notions of agriculture and territory. The Hutu Power radio station, Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) combined agrarian themes with violent racism. It proclaimed in 1993: "Tutsi are nomads and invaders who came to Rwanda in search of pasture".
