IN A remarkably comprehensive new volume, Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum, media critic for the New York Observer, covers a vast amount of material and interviews with scholars in the field of “explaining Hitler” to the world.

The interviews range from meetings with important British historians and wackos such as the Holocaust denier David Irving. They include meetings with Daniel Goldhagen, whose book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, became a bestseller in Germany and the United States, Claude Lanzman (producer of the film Shoah), Emil Fackenheim and Yehuda Bauer.

David Irving is the guy who challenged historians to come up with clear statements by Hitler to exterminate the Jews. …”

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