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 Excellent Work on a forgotten genocide December 25, 1997
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
De Zayas' book offers a recent overview of a massacre of innocents all-too many Americans would like to forget. Most victims, 2-3 million butchered, 12-15 million deported, were innocent of Nazism (those guys had already fled). The massacre had, sad to say, the understanding of German-haters in the US Foreign Department. In the 1940s and 1950s, people like the Alsatian humanitarian Albert Schweitzer and the Anglo-Jewish publisher Victor Gollancz used to remind Western audiences of this terrible moral lapse that stained their "Good War." Then it was entombed in media silence in the United States. Now, Zayas, an American jurist, looks at this tragedy again. And since the dissolution of the Eastern block, the Eastern countries try to join the European Union. This books explains well one of the stumbling blocks from the past they have to "overcome" first, in the same way Germans had to "overcome" the Nazi legacy, before they can join!
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