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...Goldhagen writes that in Birn's piece, "Words, turns of phrases, are wrested from their contexts," accusing her of removing quotation marks from her citations of his work to distort their meaning...
Finkelstein's 50 page piece, which appeared in the July-August issue of New Left Review, another British publication, alleges that Goldhagen's book "is not scholarship at all," and is rife with "glaring internal contradictions...
...German newspaper, Goldhagen called Finkelstein's piece a "gross misinterpretation" of his book that "has little to do with any knowledge of and concern for scholarship on the Holocaust and everything to do with his burning political agenda...
Hilberg said he believes that Birn "did a credible job," but conceded that in citing Goldhagen, it is possible that Birn may have inadvertently omitted some quotation marks or ellipses...
...Professor Goldhagen has written a very important book and I think that it has certainly received the serious attention that it merits," she said. "It has also elicited the kind of reaction that is unfortunately predictable when it concerns a subject that is still surrounded with so much denial and pain...