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Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners [BOOKS, April 1] asks a question that Germans of the younger generation have long wanted to pose to their parents and grandparents: What did they know, and what did they do? One thing is certain: there are no simple answers. The Holocaust plot involved fanaticized henchmen as well as sadistic executioners, opportunistic collaborators and people who heard rumors they would or would not believe in the context of raging war and burning cities. After all, the regime went to extraordinary lengths to disguise what was going on, apparently afraid...
HANS FRANK, 85; NEW YORK CITY; international tax attorney An exile from Hitler's Germany, Frank has for four decades used his legal expertise and idealism to lead Selfhelp, a group founded to assist Jewish refugees. He has expanded Selfhelp's mission to include home care for the elderly of all races and, more recently, for AIDS patients. Now he is guiding Selfhelp's attempt to recover Nazi-seized property in the former East Germany, "a very fortuitous ending to my career that gives me great satisfaction...
...anti-immigrant nativist sentiment that pervaded the United States in that era-some of which bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the rhetoric of Pat Buchanan and his herd of sheep-was one reason for the reluctance to absorb the homeless refugees. Hitler's righthand propaganda czar went as far as to say "At bottom... I believe both the English and the Americans are happy that we are exterminating the Jewish riff-raff." This is certainly the conclusion he would have been led to if he was aware that Roosevelt had the ability to order a bombing of the railway lines...
...came as little surprise that the British government would refuse the natural historical and religious right of the Jews to return to Israel (then known as Palestine). The sentiment of the Arabs, of course, did not leave room for any misinterpretation--the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Hitler on at least one occasion to discuss his personal perspectives on and possible answers to the so-called "Jewish question...
...editor could be expected to double-check all this stuff, but a third-grader should have noticed that Irving had done some tricky things with it. First of all, his emerging thesis is that the occasional lapses of the Third Reich can be blamed on Goebbels rather than on Hitler. "Hitler doesn't want to hurt anybody," Irving quotes Goebbels as writing. Maybe he wrote this, but why should anyone, starting with Irving, believe...