Years after the Holocaust, historians are still engaged in debates so as to determine whether or not the Holocaust was unique and thus a number of perspectives have emerged in order to answer this question. For example, according to Rosenfeld (1999), historians who believe that the Holocaust is not unique such as Stannard , hold this view because they believe that the Holocaust, whilst horrific, was not the only instance of racially based mass killing and thus claiming that it is unique moves focus away from other genocides such as the murder of Native Americans by early colonisers . It has also been argued that the Holocaust was not unique because, whilst millions of Jews were killed, some Jews were intentionally left unharmed, even though