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...Patrick J. Buchanan: "He's said Holocaust survivors are given to group fantasies and martyrdom. Does he think the same of his supporters...
...thesis of Goldhagen's book--that ordinary Germans, and not just Nazis, were responsible for the Holocaust--has sparked a furious debate in Germany and around the world since it was published last March. The work has spent seven weeks as the best-selling book in Germany, and has topped sales charts in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium as well...
...Matthew A. Greenbaum '00, for its reference to "Schindler's List." Danilewitz writes that Greenbaum's fiction piece, which satirizes the Crimson Key Society at one point by showing the organization making jokes about "Schindler's List," is guilty of "question[ing]" the "tragedy" and "seriousness" of the Holocaust. Danilewitz goes so far as to say, "It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value to be published...
...found in the fictional depiction of CKS insensitively. Danilewitz realizes this. "Rest assured that I did not take this dialogue at face value," he says. He goes on to say that he knows that the author of the humor piece clearly had not intended to make light of the Holocaust. Yet Danilewitz still feels that the piece shouldn't have been printed because "There is real danger that readers flipping through the latest issue of Demon who do not have time to ponder the subtleties of the authors' convoluted sarcasm would have taken away little more than...
Danilewitz would be right to point out that, in some cases, our popular culture threatens to trivialize the Holocaust with jokes which show no awareness of the tragedy of the Holocaust and how seriously it must be taken. But in Greenbaum's piece, the humor arose entirely from the thought that here, in this instance, the CKS is fictitiously shown making jokes where jokes are so obviously inappropriate--making jokes about solemn scenes in Schindler's List. Greenbaum's humor relied on its dramatization of the idea that the Holocaust is not a joking matter. We regret that this...