Hitchens responds to critics

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 25 05:34:58 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>The Germans suffered serious injustice following World War I; so should be
>just "explain" the Holocaust as a misguided overreaction to justified
>grievances?

Of course not, but it's a start, isn't it? Otherwise you're in Elie Wiesel territory - to analyze is to defame the memory of the dead - or Goldhagen territory - some mysterious characteristic of Germans. Or do you agree with them?

Doug



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