Malcolm Forbes
By Malcolm Forbes
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Culture Germany’s Inferiority Complex and the Holocaust
● Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust By Götz Aly Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $30 Early in his penetrating and provocative study of the roots of German anti-Semitism, “Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust,” Götz Aly quotes…
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Culture How a German Jew Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz
Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz by Thomas Harding Simon & Schuster, 369 Pages, $26 At the end of 2006, journalist Thomas Harding attended the funeral of his great-uncle, Hanns Alexander, in London. After the recital of the Kaddish, two of Hanns’s…
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Culture Vasily Grossman’s Armenian Sketchbook Finally Debuts in English
● An Armenian Sketchbook By Vasily Grossman NYRB Classics, 160 pages, $14.95 In 1961 Vasily Grossman traveled to Armenia from Moscow to edit a long war novel by Rachiya Kochar. Grossman was not the first renowned Russian writer to make such a trip; Osip Mandelstam had visited before him, recording his observations in “Journey to…
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