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Efforts to deny Holocaust foiled by Nazi records
Jewish Week October 25, 1981 The Holocaust and the Neo-Nazi Mythomania, published by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, edited by Serge Klarsfeld. There has been a tremendous and ever-growing interest among Jews in books giving insight into the sufferings of the Holocaust victims and the depravities of the persecutors, but Jews have not been inclined to put themselves to the depressing and dull ordeal of reading all the documentation based on Nazi records. Unfortunately, the failure of Jews to interest themselves in documentation that seemed totally superfluous in this, fortunately, there is a plenti-tude, thanks to the German passion for keeping detailed records. The Klasfeld Foundation is thus serving a most important purpose in making Nazi self-incrimination easily available. Jews should not be deluded by the fact that few Americans now doubt that the Holocaust was real and inexpressibly ghastly. The recollection dims with each passing day, as people become old and die and as a post-Holocaust generation begins to constitute world opinion. If the knowledge of Holocaust is not to dwindle into a mere paragraph of history read with great doubt, German documentation should be read and passed on to future generations. P.H. |
