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WITH A LANDMARK 1961 book, The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg argued that the Holocaust had resulted not from a single preconceived plan by Adolf Hitler but from a vast bureaucracy involving thousands of minor characters and decisions. In doing so, Hilberg pioneered the academic study of the Holocaust and established himself as its pre-eminent scholar...
Like Historian Raul Hilberg, who bears eloquent witness in Shoah, Lanzmann did not begin his mammoth project by "asking the big questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There...
...Raul Hilberg, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Vermont, and author of The Destruction of the European Jews, noted that in debates such as these, "one does not as a rule hire lawyers...
...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...
Rather than an intentional defamation, Hilberg said that such mistakes may lie "in the realm of sloppiness," but that "this is a misdemeanor rather than a felony." He said he expects the revised version, which he has not yet seen, to be considerably improved...