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Jews all over the world today are remembering the deaths of more than 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children in the tragedy of the Holocaust. Never in the history of human civilization has a society, let alone a so-called "civilized" and "sophisticated" one, perpetrated such massive human rights abuses in the manner that the Nazis and a sizeable population of non-Jewish Germans did during World...
...Jones has also tried to rope in some right-wing Britons. He has asked the court to allow him to talk to Kenneth Tyndall and Charles Sergeant, both of whom are active in ultra-right politics in England, and to David Irving, the British historian connected to circles of Holocaust deniers, whose new biography of Goebbels was canceled last week by a mainstream publisher (see page...
...very public apologist for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He has said there is "not one shred of evidence" that 6 million Jews were murdered by the Germans during World War II. In Hitler's War (1977) he made the somewhat contradictory argument that if there was a Holocaust, Hitler knew nothing about...
...relentless as a trip-hammer, sometimes irritatingly repetitive and loftily dismissive of contrary judgments that Goldhagen believes lack sufficient evidence. The book will be published this month in the U.S. and Britain, and in Germany in August; it will be the subject of a symposium at the Holocaust Museum in Washington on April...
Hitler's Willing Executioners is bound to be severely criticized--at least in Germany--since it confronts the postwar alibi that average citizens of the Third Reich either did not know about the Holocaust or disapproved of it. Some historians may also question whether anti-Semitism, while prevalent in pre-Hitler Germany, was as viciously eliminationist as the author argues...