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Hello, future fellow alumni! I am Sack, the heretic author of An Eye for an Eye. Call it chutzpah, but in it I wrote that in 1945 hundreds of Jews wore olive-colored uniforms and ran a Polish bureaucracy called the Office of State Security. I wrote that they and the Catholics who worked for them rounded up German civilians, took them to 1,255 camps, beat them with "beaters-to-death," put splinters up their fingernails, put living toads in their throats, and put gasoline in their hair, then lit it. I wrote that...
Even before An Eye for an Eye came out, Wieseltier's boss at The New Republic, Lecturer on Social Studies Martin Peretz, called up my publishers vowing to destroy the book, and Wieseltier himself told New York magazine, "The sooner we stopped this book, the better...
...then sought to smother it (and also inspired this Crimson piece) by hiring Harvard's Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies Daniel J. Goldhagen, who, in December 27, 1993 article for The New Republic, let loose a volley of hatchets against An Eye for an Eye...
...Republic, Goldhagen lied. He said that I hadn't written things that, at a glance, a freshman (in high school) could ascertain that I had. In An Eye for an Eye I'd written in highly legible type of the commandant at Lamsdorf, "He insisted (and all the Jews accepted) that he was a Polish Catholic," but Goldhagen claimed, "It is only in the notes, eighty pages away...that the unusually diligent reader will discover [that] he was a Polish Catholic...
...Goldhagen's hatchets were two-headed ones, for he also claimed that I'd written things that I hadn't. Our high-school freshman could read in An Eye for an Eye that 75 percent of the officers--the majors, captains, lieutenants--in the Office of State Security in the province of Silesia in February 1945 were Jews, but Goldhagen claimed that I'd written that "75 percent of those in the Office of State Security in Silesia were Jews...