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In the Federal Republic today, to mention any of these Allied – or even Soviet – crimes in the same breath with the Nazis is to invite the devastating charge of attempting an Aufrechnen – an offsetting, or balancing against. The implication is that one is somehow seeking to diminish the Nazis' undying guilt for the Holocaust by pointing to the guilt of other governments for other crimes. This seems to me to be a thoroughly warped perspective.
All mass murderers – all of the state terrorists on a grand scale, whatever their ethnicity or that of their victims – must be arraigned before the court of history. It is impermissible to let some of them off the hook, even if the acts of others may be characterized as unique in their brazen embrace of evil and their sickening horror. As Lord Acton said, the historian should be a hanging judge, for the muse of history is not Clio, but Rhadamanthus, the avenger of innocent blood.