THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 20, 1985 11
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David Wyman
Recognizing the continuing
flow of_ books on the Shoah
(Holocaust) and those exposing
the indifference in diplomatic
ranks during World War II
toward the Jewish sufferings,
the works exposing the silence
by David S. Wyman has prior-
ity.
Emphasis on failures in the
media is provided in Beyond Be-
lief• The American Press and the
Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-
1945 by Deborah E. Lipstadt
(Free Press Publishers) studies
and reviews the manner in
which the impending Nazi-
engineered crimes were ignored.
David S. Wyman's exposure of
the callousness of State De-
partment and White House out-
lined in The Abandonment of
the Jews (Pantheon Books) con-
tains inerasable indictments.
They commenced in Wyman's
first volume, The Paper Walls.
Issued in 1968, 15 years preced-
ing The Abandonment, the facts
therein keep challenging the in-
different and keep the record in-
tact regarding the horrors
entitled Holocaust.
The two companion Wyman
books are vastly important be-
cause they contain the facts
about the failure to act in rescue
efforts dating back to the years
that were introductory to the
murderous period. The four
years of Nazi planning for the
ovens in the death camps were
the agonizing in an era that
failed to produce proper action
and was responsible for the
death of millions.
Congressional as well as dip-
lomatic failures are exposed by
Wyman. The Paper Walls, now
issued as a paperback, like the
succeeding volume pulled no
punches.
Wyman's indictments con-
tinue to dominate the exposures
and are certain to be treated
among the most documentary in
the Shoah library.
Mengele Is Not
The 'Last Nazi'
Reams of paper have been
consumed in the published reve-
lations of the crimes committed
by Joseph Mengele, the arch
murderer whose death is now
confirmed.
Curiously, in the most incisive
study of the criminal's career
and his mass murders, author
Gerald Astor uses the title The
East' Nazi (Donald I. Fine Pub-
lishers). The singly quoted 'last'
exposes criminal and crime.
Astor's is a voluminously ef-
fective work that will remain
one of the important chapters . in
the Holocaust library. The ad-
monition that "it can happen
again" and that the Nazi curse
has not yet been erased either
from memory or history is con-
tained in these Astorian conclu-
sions:
But Mengele is not a case
study in abnormal psychol-
ogy, as some would have it,
or an aberration to be fasci-
nated by, written about but
not to be taken in the context
of history. To the contrary,
Mengele, whatever his ex-
treme characterological pre-
dispositions, was part of the
mainstream of his nation and
its prevailing moods, atti-
tudes, and indeed scientific
philosophies during the time
of his heinous — by
standards other than his and
his mentors and millions of
others in Germany and in-
deed beyond — crimes
against humanity. He was
never a pariah in his land.
And as noted, he is not even
that among many there to-
day.
The Holocaust and Mengele
happened not because they
were phenomena contrary to
their time and place. Quite
the opposite. And as Eli
Wiesel and others have been
trying to tell us ever since,
what happened once can
happen again, and for the
same reasons and with very
likely the same victims. That
is why the Holocaust must
never be forgotten or forgi-
ven. And that is why Joseph
Mengele and his ilk must
never be forgotten or forgi-
ven.
Mengele's breed may be on
the wane, and he can be said
to be its last and most notori-
ous representative. But the
species is still abundant.
Members of the German
communities of South
America show an affinity for
the tenets of Hitlerism even
though they may have
formed no discernible, or-
ganized movement.
Elsewhere in the world, in,
among others, South Africa,
in the no-man's land between
Israel and its Arab
neighbors, in the Soviet
Union, in Cambodia, in Iran,
home-grown elements of
Nazism appear victorious.
Add in the nurturing soil of
world-wide moral indif-
ference, sprinkle with one or
two charismatic personalities
slouching their way to their
own Bethlehem, and the last
Nazi will most surely not
have perished at Bertioga
Beach.
313-369-9442
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