References
The station in Rutherford, New Jersey, was WMCA, and the host was Zev Brenner. The eminent intellectual was Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, the other intellectual was Deborah Lipstadt, the author of Denying the Holocaust, and the program was The Charlie Rose Show of December 16, 1993. My exposé of the Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Aryan Nations ran on KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles in January, 1984. The three magazines were California, GQ and Newsweek, the paper was The Village Voice, and its editor was Jonathan Z. Larsen, as quoted in Magazine Week of April 5, 1993. The segment on 60 Minutes ran on November 21, 1993, and the Jewish commandant was Shlomo Morel. False Witness was the title in The New Republic of December 27, 1993, and The Big Lie, cont, was the title in The Jerusalem Report of February 10, 1994. The noted Jewish newspaper was The Forward of January 14, 1994, and the reviewer was Lawrence L. Langer. The review that referred to Lola as "Lola" was by John Wiener and ran in The Nation of June 20, 1994. Daniel L. Wick in the San Francisco Chronicle of December 26, 1993, wrote, "Sack never," and Howard Kaplan in The Jerusalem Report of February 10, 1994, wrote, "Only in Sack’s notes." Rabbi Jack Riemer in the Miami Jewish Tribune of February 4 to 10, 1994, wrote, "Dare anyone," and Riemer’s expression was "Nazi like behavior." The Jerusalem Report of February 10, 1994, said three-fourths of the Office in Poland, the Los Angeles Times of December 23, 1993, said three-fourths of the "factotums" in Poland, and the Harvard assistant professor was Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who wrote in The New Republic of December 27, 1993. The Polish professors were Tatiana Cariewskaja, Andrzej Chmielarz, Andrzej Paczkowski, Ewa Rosowska, and Szymon Rudnicki. The secret report, dated October 20, 1945, was from Lieutenant General Nikolai Sielivanovsky, the NKVD’s adviser to the Ministry of State Security, in Warsaw, to Lavrenti Beria, the chief of the NKVD, in Moscow, and is excerpted in Teczka Specjalna J.W. Stalina: Raporty NKWD z Polski, 1944-1946, by Tatiana Cariewskaja et al. Professor Paczkowski also found a secret directory of the top officers in Warsaw from 1944 to 1953, and thirty percent—131 of 447 officers—reported that they were Jews. More may have been Jews but didn’t report it. The student paper at Harvard was The Harvard Crimson, where I’d been an editor from 1948 to 1951, but three years later, on March 13, 1997, the Crimson’s new editors published an editorial signed by me. In it I challenged Goldhagen to a debate, but Goldhagen never responded. The German review, by Eike Geisel, of Auge um Auge ran in the Frankfurt Rundschau on January 26, 1995. The German publisher was Piper Verlag, but Auge um Auge was later published in Germany by Kabel Verlag. The Polish publisher was Proszynski i Ska, but Oko za Oko was later published in Poland by Apus. In addition, Occhio per Occhio was published in Italy by Baldini & Castoldi, and Oko za Oko was published in the Czech Republic by Votobia Praha. The German newspaper was Die Zeit, and the American magazine was GQ, the issue of February, 1993. My speech at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was scheduled for December 5, 1996, and February 13, 1997, and was announced in the Museum’s Calendar and on the Museum’s website. The honest reviewers and reporters were John Lombardi in New York, May 9, 1994, Bill McKibben in the New York Daily News, January 2, 1994, an anonymous writer for Newsweek, January 3, 1994, Carolyn Toll Oppenheim in The Progressive, September, 1994, Leonard Lopate, Jean Feraca and Larry Mantle on National Public Radio, and Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes. Goldhagen said, "Some Jews became murderers," and Lawrence L. Langer in The Forward of January 14, 1994, called them "a small group" and "a handful." The University of California professor was Jon Wiener, who wrote in The Nation of June 20, 1994. "He did evil" is in I Kings 11:6. The dozen papers were the Boston Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Milwaukee Journal, New Orleans Times-Picayune, New York Newsday, New York Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and the two who told me the story would run the next day were the Boston Herald and the New York Post. The story in The New York Times was "Poles Review Postwar Treatment of Germans," by Craig R. Whitney, the Times’s former foreign editor, and ran on November 1, 1994. "Do not take revenge" is in Leviticus 19:18. The Times’s publisher was Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., its executive editor is Joseph Lelyveld, my agent is Ellen Levine, and my editor at Basic Books was Steve Fraser. "Do Me a Favor—Don’t Read This Book" was the title in the Miami Jewish Tribune of February 4 to 10, 1994.
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