摘要：Alain Besan.on, a prominent French historian, aims in this
valuable and insightful book to address two related questions: why the
evils of Nazism are better remembered and appreciated than the evils of
communism, and whether the Nazi effort to destroy European Jewry can
rightly be understood to occupy a unique place in what Churchill called
¡°the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime.¡± He develops his
argument through an introduction and five chapters, but the book can be
divided into two distinct parts. In the first part, Besan.on offers a
comparative ¡°historical analysis¡± of the ¡°destruction¡± wrought by
Nazism and communism, a threefold destruction of man in his physical,
moral, and political natures. In the second part he considers these
ideologies from a theological standpoint, a standpoint that he suggests is
finally essential to a full understanding of their character and meaning.
