Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied

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Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied

Post by Benjamin Bice » Wed Jun 29, 2016 1:43 pm

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Man who claimed to have escaped Auschwitz admits he lied for years

A Pennsylvania man who claimed for years to have escaped from Auschwitz, met track and field star Jesse Owens and Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, confessed on Friday that he had fabricated the entire story.

“I am writing today to apologize publicly for harm caused to anyone because of my inserting myself into the descriptions of life in Auschwitz,” Joseph Hirt, 86, wrote in a letter sent to his local paper, LNP, this week. “I was not a prisoner there. I did not intend to lessen or overshadow the events which truly happened there by falsely claiming to have been personally involved.”

“I was wrong. I ask forgiveness,” he added. “I determined at that moment to do everything in my power to prevent the loss of the truth about wartime life (and death) at Auschwitz.”

For years, Hirt gave public speeches about his experiences in the second world war, including his Jewish family’s flight from Poland to Belgrade. But he also told people that he was arrested by the Nazis, sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, and met Mengele, the SS physician who tortured prisoners of the concentration camp. Hirt claimed to have escaped under an electric fence at the camp.

He added an extraordinary prologue and epilogue to the story, saying that he saw Adolf Hitler turn his back on Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, and that he met Eleanor Roosevelt and Owens after his arrival in the United States.

In his letter, Hirt said that he realized “it wasn’t about me”, and that he was motivated to lie by his fears that the history and horror of the camps would be forgotten. He said that he was shocked to find that Auschwitz, now a museum and memorial, had become a “clean and polished tourist destination” where visitors laughed and joked about “propaganda”.

“Flagrant denial and ignorance of the truth made me determined to keep the memories alive,” Hirt said. “I used poor judgment and faulty reasoning, risking a sullying of the truth I was trying to share.”

Hirt did not immediately reply to a request for an interview.

Earlier this year, New York history teacher Andrew Reid became suspicious of Hirt’s story and wrote a refutation of many of Hirt’s points.

The names of concentration camp victims and survivors are publicly available, and there is no record of Hirt at Auschwitz or elsewhere. Hirt admitted in his letter that he had tattooed the camp number of Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi, the acclaimed author and chemist, on his left forearm – “in no way an attempt to take on his identity, but in an effort to incorporate his symbol as a way of remembering him”.

Reid also found that Hirt’s escape story did not fit with camp records, that Mengele did not arrive at the camp until after the alleged escape, and other lies, errors and far-fetched claims in Hirt’s account. He was a six-year-old Polish boy and extraordinarily unlikely to be anywhere near Hitler at the Olympics, for instance, and Owens’ biographer found the snub was likely a fabrication, possibly conflated with another black sprinter’s story.

“I want to be clear – I am not a Holocaust denier,” Reid wrote in his own letter, noting that he got his first job from a concentration camp survivor. “It is partly in his memory and for the preservation of the truth of what millions of people endured that I have taken upon myself the task of exposing Mr Hirt’s shameful deception.”

Hirt is not the first to fabricate or exaggerate a Holocaust story, worrying historians who fear these voices encourage people who deny the deaths of six million people. Herman Rosenblat, a Polish survivor, embellished his 1993 memoir and made up some parts entirely, including the love story at its heart. At the time, historian Ken Waltzer wrote in the New Republic that he was alarmed by how quickly people accepted the story.

“This was not Holocaust education but miseducation,” he said. “This shows something about the broad unwillingness in our culture to confront the difficult knowledge of the Holocaust. All the more important then to have real memoirs that tell of real experience in the camps.”

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Yep, Jews tell unbelievable whoppers, especially about their HolyHoax.
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Witness indecisive: Lawyer challenges crematoria theory

by Kirk Makin

ERNST Zundel's lawyer challenged the testimony of a Holocaust survivor yesterday, telling the man he couldn't have seen concentration camp chimneys belch smoke and flames from exterminated Jews because crematoria don't emit anything. "I suggest it is quite impossible for smoke to come from a crematoria from human beings," said Doug Christie, whose client is charged with spreading false news.
"What do you say about that, sir?" "Nothing," Arnold Friedman, prisoner number B14515, initially replied. "If you're talking of crematoria in Toronto and crematoria in Auschwitz, those are two different things. In Birkenau (part of Auschwitz complex), smoke came out of the chimney." "I put it to you that you don't really understand anything about crematoria, to say: 'Aha, that is a crematorium,' because that is quite wrong, sir," Mr. Christie said. Many observers in the packed courtroom were left shaking their heads or fidgeting uncomfortably as Mr. Friedman, 56, then agreed that perhaps Jews were not being burnt in the chimneyed buildings.

Over a two-day span, Mr. Friedman has testified repeatedly to seeing thousands of boys herded toward the crematoria, and of seeing trainloads of people unloaded near the ominous buildings. He told of how he and other internees even thought they could tell whether fat or skinny people, Ukrainians or Poles, were being cremated by looking at the color of the smoke.

Mr. Friedman's sudden indecision in the face of Mr. Christie's forceful questioning touched off an almost-perceptible shockwave in the courtroom. "Couldn't there have been other explanations (for the smoke and flames)?" Mr. Christie asked, pressing home his advantage. "Yes, there could have," Mr. Friedman replied. "If I had listened to you at the time when I was listening to other people (in the camp), I might have listened to you. But at the time I listened to them."

The dramatic testimony took place at the trial of Ernst Zundel, who has pleaded not guilty to two charges of knowingly publishing false news which caused or was to cause damage to social and racial tolerance. In one of two articles forming the subject of the charges, the author maintains information on the Holocaust has been grossly exaggerated or faked. One of the Crown's tasks is to prove Mr. Zundel knew the articles were false.
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Post by Wade Hampton III » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:44 am

The Jews are ALL liars! They really cannot help it. it is ingrained into their biology.

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Post by Jim Mathias » Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:30 am

Wade Hampton III wrote:The Jews are ALL liars! They really cannot help it. it is ingrained into their biology.
Let's remember this as the Jewish media megaphones turn up the volume in time for the coming remembrances of the Victory over European man day on May 8th.
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I cannot think of a better solution for Jew lying than this instrument handed down to us
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A Jew Spills The Holocaust Beans!

The "Holocaust Industry" - Quotes from Professor Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein, a Jewish professor at the City University of New
York, raised a storm in the year 2000 with his book "The Holocaust
Industry". The reason? Professor Finkelstein dared to say what many were
thinking: that the holocaust was being used as a political and economic
blackmailing tool.

Finkelstein says:

"'The Holocaust' is an ideological representation of the Nazi holocaust.
Like most ideologies, it bears a connection, if tenuous, with reality. The
Holocaust is not an arbitrary, but rather an internally coherent construct.
Its central dogmas sustain significant political and class interests.
Indeed, The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon.
Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers,
with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a 'victim' state,
and the most successful ethnic group in the United States has likewise
acquired victim status. Considerable benefits accrue to this specious
victimhood - in particular, immunity to criticism, however justified."

- (Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry published by Verso (London and New
York, 2000) p3).

Some further quotes:

"In an authoritative study, Leonard Dinnerstein reported: Sixty thousand
Jews.. walked out of the concentration camps. Within a week more than 20,000
of them had died.". But 'As it entered into negotiations with Germany [just
two years ago, in 1999], the Holocaust industry demanded compensation for
135,000 still living former (camp inmates)."

On page 83 he notes that 'The Israeli Prime Minister's office recently put
the number of "living Holocaust survivors" at nearly a million.'

On page 127 he notes....

"If 135,000 former Jewish slave laborers are still alive today, some 600,000
must have survived the war. That's at least a half-million more than
standard estimates. If Jews only constituted 20% of the surviving camp
population and, as the Holocaust industry implies, 600,000 Jewish inmates
survived the war, then fully 3 million inmates in total must have survived.
By the Holocaust industry's reckoning, concentration camp conditions couldn'
t have been that harsh at all; in fact, one must suppose a remarkably high
fertility and remarkably low mortality rate. If, as the Holocaust industry
suggests, many hundreds of thousands of Jews survived, the Final Solution
couldn't have been so efficient after all - exactly what Holocaust deniers
argue. (pp127-8). '

"Both my father and my mother were survivors of the Warsaw ghetto and the
Nazi concentration camps.. One of my father's lifelong friends was a former
inmate with him in Auschwitz, a seemingly incorruptible left-wing idealist
who on principle refused German compensation after the war. Eventually he
became a director of the Israeli Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem. Reluctantly
and with genuine disappointment, my father finally admitted that even this
man had been corrupted by the Holocaust industry, tailoring his beliefs for
power and profit. As the rendering of the Holocaust assumed ever more absurd
forms, my mother liked to quote (with intentional irony) Henry Ford:
"History is bunk." (ibid. p7).

"The Holocaust proved to be the perfect weapon for deflecting criticism of
Israel." (ibid p30).

"Much of the literature on Hitler's Final Solution is worthless as
scholarship. Indeed, the field of Holocaust studies is replete with
nonsense, if not sheer fraud." (p 55).

"Given the nonsense that is turned out daily by the Holocaust industry, the
wonder is that there are so few skeptics." (p 68).

"Annual Days of Remembrance of the Holocaust are a national event. All 50
states sponsor commemorations, often in state legislative chambers. Seven
major Holocaust museums dot the American landscape. The centerpiece of this
memorialization is the United States Holocaust museum in Washington.. (This)
museum's annual budget is $50 million, of which $30 million is federally
subsidized." (p72)

"The Holocaust may yet turn out to be the "greatest robbery in the history
of mankind."(p 138).

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/content.php?pg=3

HE HOLOCAUST INDUSTRY: REFLECTIONS ON THE EXPLOITATION OF JEWISH SUFFERING
(Second Edition)
Raul Hilberg, most distinguished historian on the Nazi holocaust and
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, comments on the first
edition of The Holocaust Industry:

"When I read Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry , at the time
of its appearance, I was in the middle of my own investigations of these
matters, and I came to the conclusion that he was on the right track. I
refer now to the part of the book that deals with the claims against the
Swiss banks, and the other claims pertaining to forced labor. I would now
say in retrospect that he was actually conservative, moderate and that his
conclusions are trustworthy. He is a well-trained political scientist, has
the ability to do the research, did it carefully, and has come up with the
right results. I am by no means the only one who, in the coming months or
years, will totally agree with Finkelstein's breakthrough."

Raul Hilberg interviews on The Holocaust Industry & Finkelstein
(2000/2001)

Editor's Note: Raul Hilberg is the most distinguished historian on the Nazi
holocaust, best known for his classic three-volume study The Destruction of
the European Jews, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.

VALOR (Brazil), 4 August 2000

Raul Hilberg, author of the classic The Destruction of the European Jews, is
the world's leading authority on the Nazi holocaust. A Brazilian journalist,
Carlos Haag, questioned him about The Holocaust Industry. Below is Hilberg's
reply:

RH: "Today he is rather unpopular and his book will certainly not become a
best seller, but what it says is basically true even though incomplete. It
is more a journalistic account than an in depth study on the topic, which
would need to be much longer.

To say that the Holocaust has been used in order to secure Palestine for the
Jews is nothing new and we know how important it was in the creation of
Israel. Nevertheless it will be a bitter yet necessary reminder to the
community. He is also right when he argues that nobody talked about this
topic in the USA: in 1968 a well known local encyclopedia asked me to write
an article on the Holocaust and they only wanted me to talk about Dachau and
Buchenwald because they were not interested in Auschwitz; these topics were
censored. I agree with him that people overestimate the number of survivors
and that the concept itself is ill-defined - it includes not only the
victims of the camps - and it is true that there an exaggerated number of
compensation requests are made.

There is something radically wrong in this exploitation because it is an
issue that should not be used to make money and I must confess that I found
the whole affair with the Swiss banks disturbing. The Jewish-American
community is very prosperous and there is no reason for them to ask the
Swiss for money. That seems obscene to me."

Swiss National Radio (SBC-SSR) on 31 August 2000
by Roberto Antonini

Excerpts from the interview :

Q: Professor Hilberg, you are one of the most prominent historians on the
Holocaust. Your book, "The Destruction of the European Jews," is unanimously
considered a masterpiece. So it would be very important for our listeners to
have your comment on Professor Finkelstein?s book, since it is pretty
controversial.

Raul Hilberg: Well, to be honest I wish it were longer. It's a very small
book. It may not be apparent but one needs a background to understand what
it says. Consequently I think it is very useful but not very easy reading
for those who are not familiar with what he is writing about.

Q: Professor Hilberg, generally speaking would you agree with Professor
Finkelstein when he denounces the American Jewish organizations and some
class-action suit lawyers for "extorting" money from Europe in order to
let's say "make a killing"?

Raul Hilberg: I would in substance agree with what he says because I have
said much the same things myself and the methods of the World Jewish
Congress and some other organizations or people allied with it in his
campaign I feel are detestable. I don't subscribe to them. In sum and
substance I agree with what Finkelstein says.

Q: Don't you believe that this book could be dangerous, that it could be
used by some anti-Semitic extremists, by some neo-Nazi groups for
anti-Semitic purposes?

Raul Hilberg: Well, even if they do use it in that fashion, I?m afraid that
when it comes to the truth, it has to be said openly, without regard to any
consequences that would be undesirable, embarrassing. The fact is that we
have now crossed a line, we have seen an action that I personally cannot
defend in terms of the tactics and also of the sums of money involved in the
claims against not only the Swiss Banks but now extensively in other matters
as well.


Berliner Zeitung , September 4, 2000
by Eva Schweitzer.

The text is translated from the German original.

The American professor of political science, Raul Hilberg, aged 74, is the
leading authority in Holocaust studies. He is the author of the three-volume
study, The Destruction of the European Jews . Hilberg had to flee Austria as
a child with his parents. Today, he lives in Vermont.

Q: Norman Finkelstein accuses US Jewish institutions - in particular, the
Jewish Claims Conference (JCC) - of extorting moneys in the name of "needy
Holocaust survivors." Is this criticism shared by others?

Raul Hilberg: Finkelstein criticizes the Jewish organizations as an
outsider. However, there are also conservative Jews who oppose the
reparation payments, and there is also criticism that money is not
distributed to survivors, for example, in Commentary , the periodical of the
American Jewish Committee. In the September 2000 issue, Gabriel Schoenfeld
called the present situation concerning reparations a "growing scandal".

Q: But Finkelstein himself is a non-person in the USA.

Raul Hilberg: Yes, because it is held against him that he compares the fate
of the Jews with the Palestinians, who were expelled by the Israelis.
American Jews can*t stand that. In addition, he wrote the book, A Nation on
Trial (together with Ruth Bettina Birn ), in which Daniel Goldhagen*s book,
Hitler*s Willing Executions , is criticized. Goldhagen is very popular in
the US, even though his scholarly standard is at the level of 1946. But
Goldhagen gave vent to a repressed anger of American Jews, which is aimed at
present against all sorts of states and organizations in Europe.

Q: But the situation of American Jews today can*t be compared to the past
situation of Jews in Europe.

Raul Hilberg: This is correct. The American Jewish community is the
wealthiest and most successful in the world. Already ten years ago there
were 18 Jewish billionaires, now there are many more. One of them is Edgar
Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and one of the main
shareholders of Seagrams. These people could put an end to poverty among
Holocaust survivors within one week.

Q: What is the importance of the Holocaust in the US today?

Raul Hilberg: Many intellectuals in the US use the Holocaust to get
positions at universities or museums. The German Studies Association - an
association of American scholars specializing in German culture - has been
around for decades. But students were not interested in post-war Germany.
Only when the Holocaust was discovered as a topic - this happened 15, 20
years ago - did the association begin to blossom. Today there are hundreds
of courses on the Holocaust in the US. And when scholars want to get a
teaching position or publish a book, it works best if the topic is the
Holocaust. The same is true for newspapers. If I am listening to "Deutsche
Welle" [a German radio program], I experience a totally different Germany
than when I am reading the New York Times .

Q: The campaign against the Swiss banks was also aimed at shoveling money
into US coffers, Finkelstein says.

Raul Hilberg: The WJC*s move against the Swiss banks was essentially a clash
between American and European culture. In Europe, class-action lawsuits of
the type used against the Swiss are unknown. In the US they are common, for
instance, against the tobacco industry. The WJC and the lawyers told the
Swiss banks: You won*t be able to do business in the US if you don*t pay $20
billion. In the US one knows that this is only an initial threat, but the
Swiss were shocked.

Q: But there were dormant accounts which belonged to Holocaust victims.

Raul Hilberg: But not worth $20 billion. In the 1930s, Jews were poor. My
family belonged to the middle class, but we did not have a bank account in
Austria, let alone in Switzerland. In most of the dormant accounts only a
few thousands francs were left. The really rich Jews could escape abroad or
their heirs have long since claimed the moneys.

Q: Weren*t these the findings of the Volcker committee, which was supposed
to clarify matters?

Raul Hilberg: The current value of the moneys in the dormant Jewish accounts
is far less than the $1.25 billion paid by the Swiss. And the investigation
itself cost at least 250 millions - lawyers and accountants made a lot of
money. But after the Volcker report was published, it would have been
embarrassing for the Swiss to say: We paid too much. At that time, I told
three newspapers - Weltwoche (Switzerland), Forum (Austria), and Haaretz
(Israel) - that this was blackmail. The coalition of claimants did not try
to silence me. These people were presumably afraid to lose such a fight.

Q: But Finkelstein*s main allegation is that the money - half of which the
Swiss bankers have already paid out - doesn*t go to the account owners.

Raul Hilberg: It takes a long time until a judge can come to a decision
about the distribution of moneys. One part of the moneys should go to
account holders or their heirs; one part to forced laborers employed by
companies which had accounts in Switzerland or companies which had invested
in Switzerland; and one part to refugees who were refused entry at the
border. It is difficult to clarify the details.

Q: And what remains for the organizations?

Raul Hilberg: According to the agreement with the banks nothing should go to
Jewish organizations and their own projects, but they are already queuing up
to get money for educational purposes and memorials.

Q: Why weren*t similar measures taken against American banks, where moneys
from Holocaust victims were also deposited?

Raul Hilberg: This is just starting. There are also suits against Israeli
banks. But presumably the net result will be that there are as small sums to
be found as in the Swiss accounts.

Q: Why are these demands, as well as the demands to compensate forced
labors, being made at such a late date?

Raul Hilberg: During the Cold War the US had to show consideration for its
allies. For this reason, no questions concerning Turkish collaboration with
the Nazis are raised to this day - because Turkey is an important ally of
the US and Israel. But in Europe Jewish organizations can nowadays collect
money without jeopardizing the security of the US. I personally would like
to know why the WJC has hardly put any pressure on Austria, even as leading
Nazis and SS leaders were Austrians, Hitler included.

Q: What do you think is the reason?

Raul Hilberg: Immediately after the war, the US wanted to make the Russians
withdraw from Austria, and the Russians wanted to keep Austria neutral,
therefore there was a common interest to grant Austria victim status. And
later Austria could cry poor - though its per capita income is as high as
Germany*s. And, most importantly, the Austrian PR machinery works better.
Austria has the opera ball, the imperial castle, Mozartkugeln [a chocolate].
Americans like that. And Austrians invest and export relatively little to
the US, therefore they are less vulnerable to blackmail. In the meantime,
they set up a commission in Austria to clarify what happened to Jewish
property. Victor Klima, the former chancellor, has asked me to join. My
father fought for Austria in the First World War and in 1939 he was kicked
out of Austria. After the war they offered him ten dollars per month as
compensation. For this reason I told Klima, no thank you, this makes me
sick.

Q: Another issue is the number of Holocaust survivors because this is used
as a basis for allocating compensation.

Raul Hilberg: First of all, it is difficult to define who counts as a
Holocaust survivor. Somebody who was in Auschwitz or hiding in the woods
counts. But somebody who was living undetected in a Paris apartment or was
married to a non-Jew? Or somebody who could emigrate to the US? I would not
think so.

Q: During the last round of negotiations, the Jewish slave-laborers were
the main issue. The JCC spoke of 400,000 Jewish slave-laborers surviving in
concentration camps and 300,000 in camps in Eastern Europe. Reference was
made to your book.

Raul Hilberg: I never presented such figures. In 1945 many Jews were
transferred from one camp to another. There were different camps, like
Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen, or small sub-camps, for instance Grindlitz,
where Oskar Schindler kept his Jews. Therefore, it is irresponsible to
present exact figures to the media.

Q: You once said that quality control is missing in Holocaust studies.

Raul Hilberg: That is correct, in particular, in respect to several of the
elite universities. This is the only reason why Goldhagen could obtain a PhD
in political science at Harvard. There was nobody on the faculty who could
have checked his work.

Q: Salomon Korn, a representative of the Jewish community in Germany and a
member of the JCC, sees the problem not in Finkelstein's theses but in the
German debate of them.

Raul Hilberg: There is one taboo in Germany: Germans must not attack Jews.
That is the reason why such coverage is given to a Jew attacking another
Jew. But only when this taboo is broken will Germany be really emancipated.

Raul Hilberg: A New Interview in Le Monde, 15 February 2001

[English Translation]

Raul Hilberg, historian

"A BOOK GOING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION"

In 2000, when Norman Finkelstein's short book, The Holocaust Industry, came
out in the United States, I immediately understood that he was touching a
grave and disturbing subject. Finkelstein effectively asks: What have
American Jews made of the Holocaust? And he answers: a systematically bad
usage, as much on the part of Jewish organizations as Jewish intellectuals.
He qualifies as sterile the argument on the "uniqueness" of the Holocaust,
and implicitly rejects the idea that Israel and the Jewish community at
large can count on the Holocaust to serve such and such privilege, such and
such function.

Of course, let us not forget that the creation of Israel and the mindset of
Jews generally are inseparable from the traumatic experience of Nazism. If
non-Jews can be sickened by paranoia, for Jews it is a remedy. The conflicts
that tore Europe apart were carried out thanks to airplanes and tanks, in
between threat and revenge. Today these weapons are the safeguard of
Israel's independence. Such are the lessons learned by those who survived
the Holocaust or that observed it as potential victims.

The political power finally obtained by the Jews can create a delicate
situation. The non-Jewish world is poorly equipped to counter Jewish demands
for reparations. And facing pressure, it makes concessions beyond the limits
of justice. For example, let us note the grossness of the offensive
undertaken by American Jews against the Swiss banks - among other European
economic targets. The self-appointed commander-in-chief of this Holocaust
industry operation is Edgar Bronfman of Seagram, the empire of alcoholic
drinks. He designated himself leader of the Jewish world, including the
Jewish dead, who can't voice their opinion. He openly declared that the
Swiss banks lacked integrity, and mobilized the U.S. Congress and other
high-ranking officials to attain his goals.

The Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion, that is, $125 million at the
1945 rate. Did the banks really owe this colossal sum of money? Was world
Jewry so rich at the end of the Depression for such an amount of money to be
left sitting in Swiss bank accounts? Hard to believe.

Moreover, close to $900 million will be paid by German funds for former
Jewish slave-laborers. Each recipient will receive around $7,500. This would
mean that 125,000 former Jewish slave-laborers, about half of those who
survived, would still be alive. Is this a realistic calculation? Is it even
a calculation? Could 240,000 Jews have actually survived the brutality of
the German camps? Probably not. Nonetheless such amounts of money are today
being extorted by a Jewish leadership that is as furious as it is ignorant.

Finkelstein opened the discussion on this sad chapter. He is going in the
right direction, and it is clear that other texts on this topic will come
out. Perhaps even from Dr. Finkelstein himself.

--Translated from French by Andrew J. Warren (Hunter College student)

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/articl ... g=3&ar=202

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