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Entry: Willing Executioners?--The Holocaust, Germans, and Collective Guilt Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/willing_executioners_the_holocaust_germans_and_collective_guilt#28848 Post contents: Whether the so-called Holocaust is a truth, a half-truth, or a flat-out lie, commentators--whether they are curmudgeons or San Fernandoans or anything else--should be aware that facts have never gotten in the way of the racket that Professor Finkelstein skewered. One of the most-renowned authorities within the racket is Professor Yehuda Bauer, of Hebrew University and Yad Vashem. His published estimate that the number of Jews killed was between 2.5 and 4 million has been a matter of record for, I believe, about two decades. No one within the racket questions his work--he is a formidable researcher--they simply ignore it. When Goldhagen's book (a rewrite of his doctoral thesis) was published, Bauer and Christopher Browning were members of a forum discussing the book; the forum was broadcast on C-SPAN, now many years ago. Although Bauer and Browning made no secret of their utter contempt for Goldhagen's thesis, for the folks at Harvard who gave him a Ph.D., and for "little Danny" himself--Bauer (a tough cookie if ever there was one) actually referred to Goldhagen that way--Goldhagen sat patiently, almost beatifically, ignoring everything hurled at him. And why shouldn't he have done so? He knew he had a winner; he knew that the appetite for another fable of the Virtuous Us being victimized by the Evil Them would make him rich and famous. Was he wrong? Was he worried that facts would undo him? Hardly. Instead, it was David Irving--who NEVER claimed that there was no grand plan for the Holocaust, by the way, unless noting that no one has ever produced a piece of documentary evidence in support of the grand plan equals denial of its existence--who got sent to the slammer. So much for the free market of information. Sent at: 2008 12 02