We're drifting off topic a bit...the man who is 65 and tried to cheat on his taxes is being disrespectful of the Holocaust by saying he did it because of that memory. Miami is not a place Jews are treated badly for being Jews, and as I am down here I can attest to this. A lame defence seeing as he was born in 1945, probably in the months after the war, and would have no memory of it. So he decided in his 50's, living in Miami, to not pay taxes when he had done so in the past, and stuff his money in Switzerland in case...what? there was another Holocaust in the U.S.? Pretty lame. More like he liked the idea of not paying millions of dollars away to the IRS from the sale of his company.
The other point is about does the Final Solution qualify as unique in the history of war and suffering? Well, in a way, yes. Forget whose side one is on for a minute...Pro-Jewish, indifferent WASP, Holocaust Denier, Neo-Nazi, etc. The facts are these: The SS was tasked with the elimination of the Jewish race by the German government because it was decided that most of the negative things observed in German society by the Nazis were thought, by them, to be of Jewish origins. So if Jews act in ways that are undesirable, and cannot be assimilated and eventually watered down by blood to the point of non-existance, then they should be encouraged to leave the country and live elsewhere. With the borders of Germany expanding, and with Europe-wide conquest a new goal, making them move to new countries in Europe was no longer practical, so the social policy thought best was to kill them all to get rid of them and the negative effect on the German folk they were thought to cause. So Jews were termed subhuman and rounded up and killed in camps away from public view so as not to upset the sensitivities of the general population.
I know of no other military/government campaign in the 20th century to use the funding, military, civil government of a major state at all levels to completely eliminate one race by killing them to a man. Not just enslaving and killing some of them, as has happened elsewhere with other peoples, sure. The Japanese wanted to enslave the Koreans, kill many, thought they were subhuman...used Korean girls as field whores for the Japanese military, but did not embark on a plan to kill every Korean to a man. So yes, it is unique. That doesn't mean Jews get to play the "holocaust card" whenever they want to break the law or abuse Palestinians or whatever and expect everyone else to look the other way. But it does give Jews a Holocaust history that is unique in the 20th century.
Now, one can be horror struck by the Holocaust, indifferent to it in a ho-hum way (which time will probably cause to happen eventually more and more as it does to all major historical events over the centuries), deny it happened for whatever reason, think Nazi eugenics were great and the only bad thing was Hitler didn't finish the job before he lost the war, or whatever one wants to think. Regardless of one's beliefs, or dislike of Israel (if one dislikes Israel) one should give them the credit that the Holocaust was unique in the anals of 20th century social engineering policies, of which there were many out-there schemes.