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Such, except for the unsexed hero, is the stuff of rousing historical fiction. Pilgermann is that and several other things as well. In Riddley Walker (1981), his fourth novel, Russell Hoban proved himself a master of the unexpected viewpoint. He imagined life several millenniums after a nuclear holocaust and then invented the debased, fragmented language that survivors might use to rebuild their civilization. This time, Hoban's English is normal, but his speaker-protagonist is not. He introduces himself. "Pilgermann here. I call myself Pilgermann, it's a convenience. What my name was when I was walking around...
McCloy's involvements with Japanese-Americans, with Holocaust victims, and with Nazi war criminals were not merely those of an administrator "only following orders," nor did he simply support policies that turned out in hindsight to be wrong...
McCloy played a key role in the decision not to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Despite McCloy's assertion that President Roosevelt made the decision not to bomb, David Wyman, a leading expert on the Holocaust, has found "do documentary evidence that the bombing decision ever came to Roosevelt...
Many people will laugh off the diary hoax as an isolated incident prompted by a few sick minds. But recent years have seen too many similar "isolated incidents" for us not to take heed. In Western Europe and the United States, books have been published attempting to prove the Holocaust is a myth. In Edmonton, Canada last week, a school teacher was dismissed for telling his young, impressionable students that the gas chambers never existed. Crazy, demented people, we think, who will never be listened to. But as time passes, and those who survived the Holocaust are no longer around...
...will ever satisfactorily explain the Holocaust, though debate on the subject will continue into the foreseeable future. Yet some characteristics of the Nazi era are already crystal clear. That the death camps existed and were the greatest evil yet known to man is beyond debate. The creeping attempts at revisionism on this matter will only serve to revive the crime against humanity that we thought had died with Hitler...