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Three warnings of genocide:
First, the gradual, insidious build-up of oppression and dehumanisation. In the case of the Holocaust it was, at least at first, carried out with a semblance of law, only reaching its industrial scale under cover of war. Those gradual early stages have been repeated against other oppressed minorities before and since; Gypsies, for example, are still a target of oppression in Europe.
Second, the problem of when (and from whom) to carry out an order, when (and how) to refuse, and when (and how) to recognise that one is using an order to justify something dubious one wants to do.
Third, the problem of victimhood, now a high-profile aspect of human rights abuses. It, too, is used to justify controversial actions.
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