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discussion so frequently, by peo-
ple who use it in an attempt to
• deligitimize me. Some have said
explicitly that Jews can't be ob-
jective when writing about the
Holocaust. This is simply non-
sense. That is not the way we talk
about scholarship. This is said so
frequently in Germany.
"At first in Germany, they said,
`Oh, the Jew Goldhagen,' and it
was accepted by so many as be-
• ing completely legitimate. All
/– Jews have really wanted to do in
the discussion of the Holocaust is
tell the truth, and that's what the
survivors have done.
"Many Germans have system-
atically concealed and denied the
basic facts of what they as indi-
viduals have done, because it
shows them in a very bad light.
This discussion of background
/– should be kept out of it," he said.
"My private life is just irrelevant."
The few facts of his life he di-
vulged are that he attended the
Solomon Schechter day school in
Newton, Mass., and that he is not
an observant Jew.
Yet, in March, when he ac-
cepted the Democracy Prize,
which is given infrequently by the
•
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he praised German democracy
"and how Germans have so fre-
quently forcefully and directly
dealt with the horrific parts of
their past."
Approximately 50,000 Jews
live in Germany, and while anti-
Semitism still exists, it has lost
the "hallucinatory" quality it had
in the 1930s and '40s, Dr. Gold-
hagen said.
•
"There's an educational sys-
• tem teaching humanistic and
universal values, and it's not sur-
prising with generation replace-
ment, particularly with profound
cultural influences coming from
other countries which Germany
was trying to integrate itself with
in the western world, that many
Germans would develop differ-
ent views of Jews, even if there's
still anti-Semitism at home.
"It's parallel in the change in
Germans' views of democracy:
within a very short period of
time, you have Germany going
from a country where the ma-
jority of people voted for a par-
ty dedicated to the destruction of
democracy to the point today
where the majority of Germans
\ are democrats. It parallels the
/-- decline of anti-Semitism. It's not
hard to explain when you know
that the things people believed
about Jews — that they were not
human beings, were devils in hu-
man form — were not in accord
with reality," he said.
When he finds time between
teaching and touring, Dr. Gold-
hagen plans to write a compara-
tive study of genocides in the
/– 20th century. He'll look at
the slaughter in Cambodia,
Rwanda, Burundi, Armenia, the
former Yugoslavia, and in Ger-
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