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...MORE TERRIBLE WORD exists than Auschwitz. In those nine letters one finds the emblem of the hatred of man for man. The most infamous of the Nazi concentration camps. Auschwitz was the site of the deliberate murder of over one million Jews and other "undesirables" from 1940-44. The name alone indicts and condemns the Party that attempted genocide and raises doubts about humanity's claim to dignity. But more than 35 years later in 1979, when Dr. Wilhelm Staeglich wrote his book. The Auschwitz Myth, he did not attempt to restore man's faith in his own humanity...
...West German court last week ordered the destruction of the printing plates and all available copies of The Auschwitz Myth. The court's reaction is understandable. Staeglich is, after all, a liar whose work could make the outlawed Nazi party's existence more palatable, or at least stir up the belligerence of its present members. Few West Germans who remember the horrors of Nazi rule would welcome either prospect. One can also see the rationale behind the University of Goettingen's recent decision to revoke the doctoral degree Staeglich earned in 1951 for his law studies. The president...
...teacher's usefulness sometimes turns bitter. A book says something ennobling; a teacher makes that clear. It ought to follow that students are ennobled, but the opposite often occurs. In his essay "Humane Literacy," George Steiner brooded, "We know that some of the men who devised and administered Auschwitz had been taught to read Shakespeare or Goethe, and continued to do so. This compels us to ask whether knowledge of the best that had been thought and said does, as Matthew Arnold asserted, broaden and refine the resources of the human spirit." One might wonder why a teacher...
...charged with rounding up and shooting railway employees in Oullins, outside of Lyon, and organizing a police raid in which 86 Jews were arrested. The most poignant case against him centers on the deportation of 41 Jewish orphans, aged 3 to 13, from the village of Izieux to the Auschwitz death camp. If convicted, however, Barbie will escape the guillotine, since France abolished the death penalty...
...take more than a year to prepare and the harshest possible verdict would be life imprisonment, since France abolished the death penalty in 1981. Yet how can one every pay enough for crime against humanity, for the thousands uprooted from their homes and sent by the trainload to Auschwitz and other camps? As Jacques Block, President of the Jewish Federation of Lyon, put it: "The crimes of this man are such that there is no penalty equal to them...