The essays range over other topics, including attempts by some German historians in the 1980s to liberate Germans from the incubus of the Holocaust by placing it within the broader context of other mass murders of the twentieth century, especially those in Stalin’s Soviet Union. (Daniel E. Rogers, Murder in Our Midst, National Forum, 01/1/1997, p. 44.)
This word, when used in the above sense, can also be a synonym for hardship, pressure and ordeal.
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