Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR 'REVOLUTIONIST HISTORY' In his review of recent books on Germany's role in World War II ("Whitewashing the Third Reich." NL June 24). Joseph Bauke scarcely considers the thesis of...
...Grabert's sentence—which by the way was suspended—was a civil liberties case, involving the right to criticize the government...
...but my friends have insisted upon a Freudian interpretation of history...
...the third refers to the leaders of the Third Reich collectively, rather than to Hitler alone...
...Norbert Grabert, merely repeats the discredited attack of Dr...
...Please forward any such materials to me at 337 Western Avenue, Cambridge 39, Massachusetts...
...The suspension of his sentence could be glossed as a travesty of justice, but it might simply be a telling example of the treatment neo-Nazis receive in some German courts...
...Bauke's review is thus an unfortunate one, for, aside from these errors, it evades a basic issue: Are we not under obligation to do justice historically to those with whom we may seriously differ...
...Such distortions must be resorted to when a historian sets out to compose the history of the outbreak of the hostilities without recognizing the decisive catalytic moment: Hitler's aggressive policy...
...Rushdoony will eventually present us with a scholarly volume on Adolf Eichmann as a traffic manager...
...I would add, as did Doria, George Russell...
...Joseph Bauke scarcely considers the thesis of Dr...
...2. Der Spiegel, June 13, 1962, has this to say of David Hoggan's book: ". . . it becomes clear even to the most naive reader .. . that the American's theses rest upon no factual basis...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...JEWISH RESISTANCE It came as a great relief to me to read Elie Wiesel's excellent book review ("Resistance in Hell") in your August 5 issue...
...I've used them very well and discreetly, never straining them...
...There have been some exceptions by Günther Schuller...
...The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...All this has made Ransom a forgotten poet, a man whose name is much bantered about but whose poetry is seldom read...
...Bauke speaks of "he virus of revisionism...
...That is to say, if the Jews were annihilated it was because, consciously or unconsciously, they wanted to be annihilated...
...David L. Hoggan's study, The Provoked War, except to term it a "whitewash...
...New York City Nat Hentoff JOHN CROWE RANSOM Stanley Edgar Hyman's tribute to John Crowe Ransom ("Antique Harvester, Lovely Ritualist") in your August 5 issue is altogether fitting...
...Cambridge...
...More could be said on other aspects of Bauke's commentary...
...New York City Maurice- Durband JOHN SPARGO For a biography of John Spargo, I would be grateful for reminiscences, letters or other materials...
...Would he have us accept the court historians only...
...It might be added that Dr...
...I have been embroiled in endless arguments in the last few months about whether the Jews who were killed by the Nazis were as "guilty" as their killers...
...The foregoing should suffice, however, to indicate the inadequacy of the review...
...1 have contended that they were noi...
...If others must be sought out to share the guilt of the Nazis, why not wonder about the indifference of the rest of the Western nations to the Nazi genocide policies...
...He cites three brief quotations: the first is a misquote, and the third does not refer to Hitler in the text...
...R. J. Rushdoony Joseph Bauke replies: 1. The quotations: The first, concerning Lord Halifax, is slightly awry...
...As Hyman points out, there are a good many reasons for Ransom's lack of fame as a poet—his prestige as a critic, his limited output, his self-effacing modesty...
...3. Publisher Grabert's first name is indeed Herbert, but he is not too insistent upon either his first or last name...
...Grabert's first name, which is Herbert, not Norbert...
...Is not revisionism the necessary historical assessment of past events...
...Meyer Markai's book...
...He was not the most ruthless diplomat, but merely among the most ruthless...
...The weekly Die Zeit (October 12, 1962) has exposed him as the pseudonymous author of a review full of raves for Hoggan, a review which now contributes considerably to the embellishment of the book's dust jacket...
...Much the same, it seems to me, could be said of John Crowe Ransom, except that his gifts are anything but small and he has not acquired "a charming little reputation...
...as though this were a disease...
...Hans Rothfels...
...Bauke is also in error in calling the Spiegel review of the book one which "debunked" Hoggan's arguments...
...Max Beerbohm has written of himself: "My gifts are small...
...Some of these psychoanalytically-oriented debaters even suggest that there was a sadist-masochist relationship between the Nazis and the Jews: The Nazis, they say, were only the instrument of the Jews' self-destructive urges...
...4. The kind of revisionism practiced by Hoggan and applauded by Mr...
...The Fighting Ghettos, it seems to me, appears at a particularly opportune time for those of us who believe, with reviewer Wiesel, that the Jewish victims of the Third Reich do not share the responsibility for their own destruction...
...I agree with Goldman that the most original "advanced" jazz now being created can be heard in the work, among others, of Coleman, Coltrane, Dolphy, Giuffre's trio and Cecil Taylor...
...More could also be said on important contributions in the Hoggan study, as witness his analysis of the role of balance of power politics...
...Rather, the Spiegel was on "the whole positive in its analysis of Hoggan's study...
...Again...
...I trust that Hyman's excellent review will help to rectify this situation...
...Bauke's comment on the publisher of Hoggan's book...
...other critics badly misreading and falsely categorizing his poetry...
...Susan Gold THIRD STREAM Having been referred to in the letters column of your August 5 issue by John L. Doria as a "propagandist" for the "Third Stream" movement in jazz, I'd like to make clear my view that while the concept may have some future viability, much of what has been produced in that vein so far is, as Albert Goldman observes, "a bad old compromise between jazz and art music...
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...It might be added that Bauke is also incorrect in citing Dr...
...and the result is that I've made a charming little reputation...
...Grabert first made a name for himself with two books on the Aryan mystique, both of which were on the shelves of the libraries in the SS training schools...
...Gerald Friedbfrg...
Vol. 46 • August 1963 • No. 17
