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Your reporter did not succeed in speaking with me before her article ("Holocaust Chair Decision Unlikely Anytime Soon") appeared on March 31. Allow me as chair of the search committee for a professor of Holocaust and cognate studies to correct some misimpression...
Finally, writes Peretz, "Sack...is still trying to prove that there were two Holocausts, one by the Nazis against the Jews, the other-after the war-by Jews against the Germans." Peretz truly calls this delirious history, but the delirium isn't mine but his, for I've never called what Jews did in 1945 a Holocaust. Indeed, I specifically write on the second page of An Eye for an Eye, "This was no Holocaust or the moral equivalent of the Holocaust." --John B. Sack...
...more truths inhere in Peretz's letter to The Crimson. It's true, as he claims, that Martin Kessler, the publisher of An Eye for and an Eye, my book about the Holocaust and what happened after it, is now deceased. And therefore it's not easily checked that Peretz called up Kessler and ranted against An Eye for an Eye but never, never told him, "I will destroy this book." He can claim this with total confidence that Kessler won't write a letter contradicting...
Sack has spent a great deal of energy attacking me and misrepresenting what I have maintained, such as the ridiculous and demonstrably false assertion that I do not want people to learn from the Holocaust that it is not true that "all Jews are good and all Germans are bad." The Crimson even did Sack one better by inserting, as a subhead, the statement: "Goldhagen is wrong to understand the Holocaust as teaching that all Jews are good and all Germans are bad." Where is the evidence that I have ever said, written or "understood" this about either Jews...
...theme of Sack's book is: that a conspiracy of secret Jews (passing as non-Jews) controlled the Polish security services after the war and brought about the deportation of millions and the killing of tens of thousands of ethnic Germans as a way of "revenging" themselves for the Holocaust. Jews working as Stalin's self-appointed "hounds of hell" (Stalin, the vicious anti-Semite, is portrayed by Sack only as a friend of the Jews, his minions) "became like Nazis" and committed (according to one German expellee whom Sack quotes approvingly) a "Holocaust" against Germans...