To what extent was the Holocaust a collective crime? Where should the line of guilt have been drawn - with the Nazi leadership? Nazi party members? The German people? Europeans in general? Nations which could have bombed the death camps, but did not?

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1. Given the massive destruction - fire bombings and genocide, for example - which had become the norm by 1945, was Truman right to consider the atomic bomb just another "military weapon"? Or were the scientists who petitioned the president correct in their assertion that this was a "new means of destruction," which required more restraint and a heavier moral responsibility than existing types of warfare?

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2. To what extent was the Holocaust a collective crime? Where should the line of guilt have been drawn - with the Nazi leadership? Nazi party members? The German people? Europeans in general? Nations which could have bombed the death camps, but did not?

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To what extent was the Holocaust a collective crime? Where should the line of guilt have been drawn - with the Nazi leadership? Nazi party members? The German people? Europeans in general? Nations which could have bombed the death camps, but did not?

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