 He argues that the Holocaust was such a horrific event that it is almost impossible to express in normal language.Friedländer sees the anti-semitism of the Nazi Party as unique in history, since he maintains that Nazi antisemitism was distinctive for being "redemptive anti-semitism", namely a form of anti-semitism that could explain all in the world and offer a form of "redemption" for the antisemite.Friedländer is an Intentionalist on the question of the origins of the Holocaust.