Psychology

Some aspects of the Holocaust lore can only be understood, or at least approached in a clearer light, when one considers the psychological background of the people and the times involved. Wartime, with its disasters, propaganda efforts and widespread desperation and anxiety, is a breeding ground for rumors and exaggerations, propagated both through deliberate disinformation and common credulity. Add to this the group dynamics on all sides of this controversy: the warring enemies of yore, the perpetrators – whatever their deeds – the victims, and the postwar scholars, both revisionist and orthodox, all caught in their own psychological box.

Elie Wiesel Has Died at Age 87

Elie Wiesel was arguably the most well known and powerful figure among acknowledged Holocaust survivors. While alive, he exercised his “moral lobby” to keep the memories of the Holocaust and Holocaust survivors alive and to “educate” the new generations on the dangers of anti-Semitism and hatred to minorities, specially, of course, to Jews.  He coined…

Letter to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt222 Berkeley StreetBoston, MA 02116[email protected]   To the Attention of: Linda K. Zecher, Chief Executive OfficerWilliam Bayer, General CounselJill A. Greenthal, Director and Chair of Nominating, Ethics, and Governance CommitteeAndrew Russell, Corporate and Social Responsibility   Dear Officers and Directors of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  I am writing to commend Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for its years of…

Holocaust Survivors Eating Human Flesh: Freddie Knoller’s Testimony

One of the outrageous claims made possible to support the unique monstrosity of the Germans is found in the Holocaust Survivor’s testimonies. Here we can listen to a plethora of bizarre, horrific, petrifying, grotesque and overall fantastic stories that according to those who tell them are true.  Freddie Knoller In the fact we have not…

Blood Libels, Gas Libels And the Difference between Them

For much of recent history much has been written, and read, of the “blood libel” on the Jewish people spread among the populaces of Europe and the countries elsewhere populated by Europeans. The story has countless variants, most of them involving the abduction of non-Jewish babies for ritual slaughter in which some use or other…

Why They Said There Were Gas Chambers—or, Sing for Your Life!

They all said it, didn’t they? Or all of those testifying under oath anyway, no? Or nobody said there weren’t any, did they? Certainly not under oath, eh? The weight of testimonial evidence in support of the existence and use of gas chambers in German wartime concentration camps seems to be as overwhelming as it…

Some Lessons After Fifty Years

Joseph Sobran is a nationally-syndicated columnist, author and lecturer. He is a former senior editor of National Review, and currently Washington, DC, correspondent for The Wanderer and the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. He edits a monthly newsletter, Sobran's (… [now defunct; ed]). “Holy War” first appeared in the May 18, 1995, issue of The Wanderer, a traditionalist…

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