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...curriculum includes titles such as Gen Ed 103, "AIDS, Health and Human Rights"; Gen Ed 136, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide"; Adams 122, "Printed Books as a Field of Study"; and Quincy 121, "A History of Zoos...
...suspect that Jeffrey Vanke's problem is that he is not yet ready for serious dialogue. By this we mean dialogue suited for a post-Holocaust world, a post-Bosnia world, a post-Rwanda world. A dialogue, that is, which is morally shaped and tapered by full recognition of modern human beings' responsibility for the vicious anti-human deeds done in the past and the name of our societies and nation-states. Jeffrey Vanke offers not a clue that he understands what serious dialogue must be about in our era. --Lee A. Daniels, Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute; Martin Kilson...
...whose parents lost their families in the Holocaust. I grew up in Israel among Holocaust survivors. Since I was a child, I have read every book I could find on Nazi Germany. I have tried to understand why and how the Germans came to carry out their plan for exterminating the Jews. I have read all of Irving's excellent books. He is no "apologist for Adolf Hitler." His works record the extermination of the Jews and provide evidence of Hitler's direct involvement. Irving is not an anti-Semite, nor is he a supporter of Hitler or Nazi Germany...
Such moments of interest occur at the expected points. Ben Artzi-Pelossof's trip to Auschwitz with Rabin, for example, allows her to relate some gripping stories of Holocaust survivors, such as Samuel Gogol, a harmonica player who was forced by the Nazis to play in a band in front of Jews being walked to the gas chambers--to this day, he instinctively closes his eyes whenever he plays the harmonica. And some of her domestic anecdotes about Rabin are simple and touching, like the time she and her grandfather were sharing a bed with an electric blanket...
...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 of what...