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             He also criticizes the usual portrayal of the Holocaust on television and
             stage ("The Americanization of the Holocaust on Stage and Screen"). To
             Langer, the language used in the portrayals is designed to console, not to
             confront. In describing his review of historical studies of the Holocaust,
             Langer strongly objects to the use of abstract terms like "the murder of 6
             million" and says that the accounts of the total destruction of the European
             Jewry should be told in graphic detail. In "Cultural Resistance to
             Genocide," Langer points out that by the use of the expression "cultural
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