Word: holocaustal
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Goldhagen's book made international headlines in 1996 with its thesis that the "Germans' anti-Semitic beliefs about Jews were the central causal agent of the Holocaust...
...book also said that the Holocaust was not the work of isolated or sadistic elements of German society...
Birn's article "Revising the Holocaust," published last March in the Cambridge Historical Journal, alleges that Goldhagen's book "only caters to those who want simplistic answers to difficult questions, [and] to those who seek the security of prejudices...
...broad range of solid scholarly research has concluded that popular German anti-Semitism neither accounted for Hitler's triumph nor was it the impetus behind the Final Solution," writes Finkelstein, who is the son of Holocaust survivors...
...step in? Dr. Klaus Schroder, the Leopold Museum's managing director, suspects that behind the D.A.'s subpoena lies the hand of New York's Republican Senator Alfonse D'Amato, who is seeking support during this election year for his bill on property restitution to the heirs of the Holocaust, which passed the Senate in November and awaits House action. "It is of course political," said Schroder. He dismisses the Reif and Bondi claims as invalid, as the statute of limitations has expired, and vehemently defends Rudolf Leopold as a good-faith purchaser...