3 FEBRUARY 2001, Page 26

Holocaust memorial

From Mr M. Fooks Sir: In response to your leading article (-Holocaust abuse', 27 January): most atrocities take place in what we consider barbaric areas. What distinguishes the Holocaust is not only its unprecedented monumental scale; it is that it took place in a civilised 20th-century European country under a democratically elected government as the direct logical outcome (Final Solution) of a series of discriminatory and persecutory laws which do not seem to have terribly upset that part of the population not subject to them.

Fooks

Travellers' Club. London SW1