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...ashes from the holocaust and Shootout in Los Angeles had barely cooled last week when law authorities declared that they finally had the answers to two of the most persistent questions about the Patty Hearst saga. They were convinced that the newspaper heiress had really been kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4 rather than taken part in an elaborate ruse to join old friends. But they were also persuaded that Patty had since joined the cause of the shattered S.L.A. and become a terrorist herself...
...article "A Survivor of the Holocaust" I presented Rudolf Vrba's views on Zionism and on collaboration during the holocaust-period. To assume, as Ms. Rosenberg does, that I share those views is to read an element into the article that is simply not there. In fact my personal opinions on these subjects are largely the same as the authors of these letters. Nonetheless, it was my intent to write an objective and even sympathetic character sketch of Vrba. This did not represent an endorsement of his position...
Considering how painfully little is written about the Holocaust or its survivors, your article "A Survivor of the Holocaust" (May 2) would seem like a welcome contribution. Unfortunately, it is so filled with allusions, distorted generalizations and unsubstantiated evidence that it is a gross injustice. To label it a "Scrutiny" is an offense to the word...
...Rosenberg/Vrba may be "content to feel that he himself is not taken in by what he believes to be the myths surrounding the holocaust" but others might be interested in knowing who these alleged Zionist conspirators were. Why did this not come out in the Eichmann trial? The Nuremberg trials? Where did Rosenberg/Vrba find these Zionist leaders roaming about at a time when most of the Jews of that area were already in concentration camps, in contained areas or hidden...
...Rosenberg/Vrba's charge is the exact replica of what became the official Communist party stance on the nature of the Holocaust--albeit with even greater elaboration. I am not disinclined to believe the charge because of its origins, yet without the presentation of any evidence the characterization of this allegation as "one of the few cases of clear-cut collaboration between the Nazis and the Jews..." is irresponsible and offensive. Just because the author of the article wanted to pursue this particular issue is no excuse for pulling together contradictory phrases and ignoring recorded history. Alternative views of the Holocaust...