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88 Detroit Jewish News

SANDEE BRAWARS KY
Special to The Jewish News

BIC ore than 50 years after

Hitler's death, there's no
consensus among the
many Holocaust schol-
ars about the nature of his evil, his
motivations, his self-awareness, his
hiddenness.

As journalist Ron Rosenbaum
points out in his new book, Explaining

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Ron Rosenbaum grapples with Hitler
and the nature of evil.

Hitler (Random House; $30), there
are many competing visions and pas-
sionate, bitter disputes. In fact, the
scholars portray many Hitlers: the psy-
chologically dam-
aged son, the
German shaped by
forces of history, the
Hamlet-like leader
who couldn't make
up his mind, among
others — "Hiders
who might not rec-
ognize each other
well enough to say,
`Heil,' if they came
face to face in Hell,"
Rosenbaum writes.
It's not just the
scholars who dis-
agree. On many
recent radio call-in
shows, the author
has encountered
individuals who
have their own
explanations of
Hitler's behavior.
"People feel com-
pelled to have a the-
ory about Hitler,"
Rosenbaum says.
"In some ways it's
maybe more corn-
forting to have a
bad explanation
than no explanation
at all."
Rosenbaum's book is a study of the
explainers, written with scholarly thor-
oughness and the lively prose of a cul-
tural journalist. "I'd argue that Hitler

Sandee Brawarsky is a New York
based book critic.

explanations ... are cultural self-por-
traits; the shape we project onto the
inky Rorschach of Hitler's psyche are
often cultural self-portraits in the neg-
ative. What we talk about when we
talk about Hitler is also who we are
and who we are not," he writes.
Growing up in Bay Shore, Long
Island, in the '50s and '60s, the
Holocaust was an "abstract fact" for
Rosenbaum. He remembers being
aware of the Six Million who were
murdered, but there were no
Holocaust survivors among his family
and friends, and none living in his
town. It was much later that Hitler

would become an obsession.
Among the factors that sparked his
interest — why he "plunged into the
abyss" — were his father's casual men-
tion at a Thanksgiving dinner in 1982
of a relative who died in the
Holocaust; it was the first time
Rosenbaum learned of their family