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From within this moment, Benjamin cautions against the view that the reality of the day was an exception and against the amazement expressed by some that it was “still” possible. As long as progress is perceived as the historical norm, as long as the triumphal conception of progress perdures, the erasure of the memories of the oppressed will persist. Nazism is not a relic of a dark past (one that is “still” possible), nor is it the antithesis of the liberal approach, but it is rather a conclusion drawn from the foundation on which secular Western consciousness is built: the concept of progress.

—Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, from “Benjamin, the Holocaust, and the question of Palestine,” in The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History