Holocaust: The War for the Spirit
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The War for the Spirit
By Paul Eisen
We are entitled to search for the truth. The real crime committed by the National Socialists—the exclusion, dis-empowerment, deportation, enslavement, death by omission and by commission and expulsion of a people simply because they were that people—was a terrible one. One does not need gas chambers to make the targeting of Jews, just because they are Jews, extraordinary and unacceptable. Nonetheless, if this targeting did not extend to extermination, if there were no gas chambers and if six million Jews did not die, then we should know it and, if necessary, address the implications. If there is some reason why we should not investigate this matter, then the onus is on those who would deny us that right, to say why. Those who would deny us t...
