Lanzmann 5

[Dave Monroe]

Thnaks for all of this, was a topic of conversation
for me just last night.  Have been reading ...

Rosenbaum, Ron.  Explaining Hitler:
   The Search for the Origins of His Evil.
   New York: Random House, 1998.

http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=006095339X&tc=rg

>From Ch. 1, " The Mysterious Stranger, the Serving
Girl, and the Family Romance of the Hitler Explainers"

http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=006095339X&tc=cx

http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/rosenbaum-hitler.html

... where it's mentioned (in a long, fascinating
introduction which leaves one wondering what might be
LEFT to say on the subject) that Lanzmann would become
extremely upset over Hitler's baby picture(s?),
apparently believing that not only would any attempt
at explaination fail the enormity of Hitler's evil,
but perhaps would lead as well to exculpation (that
one just came out of me, I had to look it up, even)
...

By the way, anyone here familiar with ...

Finkelstein, Norman.  The Holocaust Industry:
   Refelction on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.
   London and New York: Verso, 2000.

http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/ef-titles/finkelstein_holocaust.shtml

Lanzmann's closing remarks bring it to mind, so ...

--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:
>  
> None of the survivors in Shoah says "I". Nobody
> tells a personal  tale ...

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