Holocaust apologist wins German literary prize

[Coffey, Mitchell R]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doug Millison [mailto:millison at online-journalist.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:03 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Holocaust apologist wins German literary prize
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/062100nolte-prize.html
>
>BERLIN, June 20 -- The award of one of Germany's most prestigious 
>literary prizes to a historian who has sought to justify the 
>Holocaust has ignited a fierce dispute here at a time of conservative 
>and reactionary intellectual stirrings in Europe.
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Thanks for bring this to our attention.  Fightening.  

For more information on Ernst Nolte and that "school" of
German acedemic Nazi-appologetics, see:

"Explaining Hiter: The Search for the Origins of His Evil," 
Ron Rosenbaum, ISBN 0-679-43151-9, Random House, New York, 
1998.

Everyone interested in Hitler historography should see
Rosenbaum's book, in any case.

Thanks again.


Mitchell Coffey
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