> Johannes Schneider wrote:
>
> >Die Welt is giving almost a whole side to three articles, including an
> >interview with Finkelstein. Finkelstein. Certainly he says a lot of
correct
> >things (e.g. about remembering and compensating US, British and French
> >crimes in the respective countries), but reading a setence in a
conservative
> >German paper like:
> >"Der Holocaust ist eine ideologische Keule, mit der Deutschland in Schach
> >gehalten wird"
> >("The holocaust is the ideological club to keep Germany in check")
> >makes me shiver. It shows that Finkelstein knows very littles about
> >present-day Germany.
>
> Johannes, are you sure this line is from The Holocaust Industry?
No, I did not say this. It is from the Die Welt interview published today: http://www.welt.de/daten/2001/02/06/0206ku220599.htx The interview was conducted by Alan Posener and I assume it was originally held in English and translated into German, but the published version is only in German and I have provided only a rough raw translation (BTW it should rather be 'an ideological club' than 'the ideological club'). Perhaps others who understand German can provide a better translation.
Die Welt has already put online tommorrow's edition with more articles: Uwe Schmitt sums up US reactions to Finkelstein, quoting Omer Bartov, Christopher Hitchens, Stephen Zipperstein and Gabriel Schoenfeld. http://www.welt.de/daten/2001/02/07/0207ku220883.htx
There is going to be a potrait of Finkelstein in tommorrow's Die Welt, but it is not online yet.
Johannes