Shaping the holocaust: the final solution in us political discourses on the genocide convention, 1948–1956

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There has been a growing comparative literature in recent times on the use of the Holocaust in contemporary events. The atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo have resulted in comparative works which suggest strong parallels with the Holocaust. One author has gone so far as to suggest that the influence of the Holocaust in the political discourses of the 1990s was influential in framing politics with such events as the Kosovo conflict, drawing out the metaphors of Auschwitz in endorsing and critiquing NATO intervention.