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Hello listmembers,
I am writing about American historians and their perspective on the
holocaust. The article is an elaboration of my MD thesis on Hitler's
Willing Executioners by Goldhagen, The Holocaust in American Life by
Novick, and The Holocaust Industry by Finkelstein - I have analysed and
compared the reception by American scholars of these three books. At
some point in time, Daniel Goldhagen apparently threatened one of his
critics, Ruth Bettina Birn, with a libel suit. Also, the Anti Defamation
League tried to stop A Nation On Trial, the bundled critiques of Norman
Finkelstein and Ruth Birn, from being published. I have worked through
an extensive amount of reviews and essays, some of which mention one or
both of these conflicts - but none give the outcome. At the bottom of
this post, you will find a list of the articles and books I have used in
casu Goldhagen. The only thing I haven't found is a website for Birn.
I did plough through Finkelstein's and Goldhagen's website. None of
these offer the answer I seek; H-German is my last resort. I have also
scanned the websites of the New York Times and Washington Post for an
answer to my two-part question, which is:
1. What was the outcome of the libel lawsuit Goldhagen filed against
Birn (personally) in England?
2. The Anti Defamation League tried to boycott the publishing of A
Nation On Trial, which obviously didn't work. But what happened next?
Did they also start a lawsuit? Did they fully drop it? What did they
do?
Thanks in advance,
Merel Boers
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