Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 10:26:32 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: MT: Goldhagen in news? This is bizarre. I've heard of author's resentment of bad publicity, but going to court seems a bit extreme. The Goldhagen book is worthless. I think Noeman Finkelstein has utterly demolsihed it in New Left Review. I wouldn't call G a "racist": he doesn't think Germans are a "race" and among his many inconsistencies is the claim that after a 1000 years of pathological Jew Hating the post war Generaton of Germans are mysteriously free of it. I think "idiot" is a more correct term than "racist." (So sue me, Dan!) --Justin On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Jukka Laari wrote: > Ciao! > > Has anyone heard of the "case Goldhagen" recently? I did: > > This morning I saw part of an interview of historian Hans-Ulrich > Wehler in "Kulturzeit" (a culture program of "3Sat", satellite/cable > channel). Neo-racist Daniel Goldhagen, author of "Hitler's Willing > Executioners", had sued his critic! She had apparently showed some > inconsistensies in DG's book. Wehler was stunned; after over 50 > scientific critiques Goldhagen decides to sue this particular critic. > > Wehler also wondered that Goldhagen's book was somehow alien piece of > publicity right from the start: it's a dissertation in politology, > examined by two politologists and one political economist, none of > them had done research on nazi period; original university publisher > gave up of publishing the book which finally was approved by > commercial publisher; book got wide publicity before it appeared into > bookstores, and it finally became a commercial success both in North > America and Europe. All that despite that book was, according to > Wehler, full of errors. He called the situation scandalous, 'minimal > scientific standards should be fulfilled'. And now Goldhagen tries to > deny the criticism by using the law - that has happened never before > in US or Germany, according to Wehler. > > How this all should be understood? Has anyone more info on that? > > Yours, Jukka L
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