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Review title: Racist Shmonzes
Product review: I have a PhD in history and know how personalagendas can distort scholarship. In the 1930s,Dr. Goebbels used widespread Jewish support for the Communist movement to construct a Jewish collective guilt for the Stalinist massacres--ludicrously blaming even anti-communist Jews, orthe vast unpolitical majority. Now Dr. Goldhagen uses the same techniques of tendencious and selective picking of sources to give a scholarly sheen to racist prejudice against Germans. That is why scholars, e.g. Norman Finkelstein and Alfred de Zayas, have condemned the book (just look at the damning reviews in Harvard's H-Net, written by people who actually know the subject). But since Amazon Books thought it ethical to sell this racist diatribe, what is next? Scholarship from the KKK, or from the Black Goldhagen, Leonard Jeffries, who indicted "ordinary Whites" as murderous "ice-people", without, though, getting so much media applause?
