The Holocaust remains one of the most tragic events in history and is still clear in many minds today.

Dan McMillan, professor of history, wants to help students make sense of the Holocaust in a presentation tonight at 7 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.

McMillan said he wants to look at the reasons for the Holocaust, its explanation and the point of it. There are many developments in European and German history that help explain the causes and rationale of the Holocaust.

McMillan will also speak about the racial issue surrounding the Holocaust, and he wants to talk about the Jews and Adolf Hitler. He said he hopes to put it into a larger context to hopefully make everyone better understand the Holocaust.

McMillian’s main point will be the religious faith of the Western culture that actually made the Holocaust possible, and he also is going to give a brief overview of the chronologies or background information.

McMillian’s main question is, “Was the Holocaust uniquely different than any other mass killings?” He said he plans to use comparison techniques to explain why he feels there was a lot of difference, and that there was much more to the Holocaust than just killing.