THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
Rubin, Morris H.
Mayer on Eichmann Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's article, "Eichmann in Israel" in the April Progressive was extremely disturbing and confusing. The confusion is a result of the hodgepodge attempt to...
...Does Mayer contend that the rest of the world has any right to put Eichmann on trial when they gave up pursuing him years ago...
...We would have to include the Arabs as well as the British and Americans among the peoples who refused egress to the Jews from Nazi Germany...
...it was unnecessary, unfair, and insulting to equate Israelis and Nazis...
...It was called for within two hours...
...As I understand it, Russia has long since been willing to accept our proposals for inspection if we will only declare ourselves in favor of total disarmament...
...Mark Ross Stanford, California Mayer's Double Standard Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's dialogue with "Eichmann" appears to be a masterpiece of logic and Christian forbearance...
...Sarah P. Goldstein Madison, Wisconsin Meyer's Goldwater 'Fine' Dear Sirs: Karl E. Meyer's article in the April Progressive on "Barry Goldwater: Radical of the Right" is a fine portrayal—with balance, perception, insight, and objectivity—of a man some of us fear and others look upon as a new deliverer...
...Are we still limiting our aims to controls only...
...It is the same type of reasoning by which Dwight D. Eisenhower can be shown to be a Communist or the late Senator Joseph McCarthy to have been a liberal...
...But the kitchen knife and democracy are both tools which we consider indispensable to our way of life...
...he is responsible for them...
...and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me...
...All honest people who saw the picture know the answer to that one...
...They would only serve men like Eichmann himself...
...the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground...
...Peter D. King, M.D...
...How can we expect the slightest change in attitude on Castro's side if we do not change ours first...
...David Fellman and James Jackson Kilpatrick not only do not defend hard-core pornography, they attack it...
...While it may appear to follow from this that it is futile to exact responsibility for these crimes from one individual, it just as easily follows that no man need bear responsibility for any of his actions...
...In effect, the whole Israeli people will be his "guards...
...William Rybarczyk Rice Lake, Wisconsin Bodies for Medicine Dear Sirs: Ruth M. Harmer's "The High Cost of Dying" in the March Progressive gives welcome news of a needed fight against undertakers' vicious practices...
...There may be clear and present danger in the possession of a kitchen knife, just as in democracy itself we take an enormous risk...
...Solely to increase Mr...
...This statement presumably was offered in justification of U.S...
...Using a specious and trite straw-man technique, he asks of the Jews what centuries of attempted genocide have not accomplished, that they renounce their God of vengeance, accept Jesus, and become the true Christians of the world...
...He should know the punishment that is "more than man can bear": to live out his life abandoned by mankind...
...a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth...
...This smacks of infanticide...
...To suggest that Israel seeks vengeance or retribution for six million victims from this miserable specimen of inhumanity is utterly incredible...
...There are too many individuals who fought against it and died or were imprisoned, who disbelieved but who were too frightened to act, or who were self-deluders or incompetent...
...an attempt to equate Ben-Gurion and Hitler, the Israelis and the Nazis...
...Is it any wonder that ideological changes took place in the Castro administration...
...Charles Pemberton New York City Supports HUAC Dear Sirs: I saw the motion picture Operation Abolition...
...Striking a magnanimous pose of forgiveness, understanding, and fellow-feeling with the ex-Nazis, he is himself guilty of the most uncharitable and "pharasaical" attitude towards his neighbors, such as the unnamed historian who wanted to "bash in" the Nazis' heads...
...why should we then, this reasoning would go, use poor Eichmann and his ilk as scapegoats for guilt all of us must share...
...So maybe we educate a people, or make them feel shame and guilt, or teach them the necessities of individual participation in the events of our times—but the guilt and responsibility of the man who knowingly, willingly, and even joyfully pulls the trigger is nonetheless pertinent...
...I hope that in my mind and the minds of other readers, this one does not shatter completely the impression that Mayer might have something more intelligent to say on other topics...
...I cannot help thinking that if "patience and understanding" had been given to the new, young head of state in Latin America who, two years ago, turned to the United States for financial aid and cooperation, things might be very different for us in Cuba today...
...Do we not ourselves demand that the satellite governments to whom we give aid profess at least lip-loyalty to our self-styled "free world" ideology...
...I fail to see that he has mentioned any disarmament proposal put forth by the United States...
...All of the major Allied powers long ago gave up hunting for Eichmann...
...Mayer commits an even worse crime...
...Israel is the conscience of the world goading all other nations to accept some responsibility for the Nazi disaster by putting Eichmann on trial...
...Hasn't Mrs...
...One of Mayer's main ploys is the "identification" device, whereby innocent and helpless Jews are identified with the Nazis who shoved them into the gas chambers and incinerators...
...Mayer implies that the Nazi case, exemplified by Eichmann, is defensible and that the case of Israel needs justification...
...The facing and accepting of erotic reality (pornography to many) minimizes the need for pornographic fantasy to the point that it must have artistic merit in order to survive in the marketplace...
...failing this the law must analyze the why and how of the crime, and it does this through the median of individual responsibility, so that safeguards can be erected against future occurrence...
...I assume Fellman refers to the defense of "hard-core pornography" on its legal, rather than its artistic merits...
...How could any repetitious claiming of innocence change the facts...
...A society must function on the premise that an individual is a responsible agent...
...As a product of the cultural and psychological forces acting upon him, he is as much determined as he is a determinant...
...He should be fully protected by the laws of the state and by its people's obedience to the word of God...
...What did the United States ever do to prevent this...
...Fellman has labelled in advance anyone who disagrees with him, but I feel I must do so in the interest of maintaining the First Amendment and in the interest of common sense...
...One wonders where Mrs...
...A daily concentration-camp ration of bread and water should be given him by any citizen of whom he begs it...
...And the Lord said unto Cain . . . What hast thou done...
...Rebecca Altschuler Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Justice Abandoned Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's solution to the "Eichmann problem" is astonishingly childish when you consider where his logic leads us...
...What is disturbing is that such confusion should appear in The Progressive...
...attempts to overthrow that government by force, or at least, to assist that attempt...
...I am beginning to feel a moral obligation to cancel my subscription if Milton Mayer continues to hold forth...
...If the United States were now to support revolutionary action in Cuba, or take violent action of any kind against Castro's government, would we not be just as guilty of imperialism as would any other government which would try, by violence, to force on any people a government they do not want...
...The pornography of an era is a qualitative and quantitative measure of the repressions of that era...
...But instead of a loan and a little "patience and understanding" we denied assistance to Castro...
...He distorts many facts and much of the philosophy of both the Nazis and the Jews...
...He spoke of a bone bank...
...Surely the Editor of The Progressive does not mean to equate the fascist orientation of the Nazi party or the aggressive ambitions of Soviet-equipped Nasser-dominated Arab countries with the progressive social system and outlook of a democracy like Israel...
...we cut his sugar quota and refused to process his oil—acts which would have quickly strangled the Cuban economy...
...Thank you for the privilege of reading such magnificently organized material on a subject of such widespread interest...
...And Cain said unto the Lord, My punishment is greater than I can bear...
...Fellman's knowledge, I wish to inform him that I am a responsible and sensible civil libertarian who defends hard-core pornography...
...It makes me sick at heart to think of our government putting itself in the position of violating those very laws of decent human conduct that we claim to uphold...
...Hence, it follows, says Mayer, that if it was wrong to hunt down and execute the Jews, it is equally wrong to hunt down and prosecute the Nazis who tortured and butchered them...
...In fact, there were dispatches from Havana stating that the bearded boys who roared into power in 1959 gave the cold shoulder to the local Communist Party, a third-rate little group which certainly had nothing to do with the overthrow of Batista...
...Mayer will save the wrong-doer's rights with the very last blood of the victim and with the last blood of all opposed to the wrong-doer...
...Vernon Bender Carmel, California The Mark of Cain Dear Sirs: The crime of Eichmann is the crime of Cain, and the Lord has spoken His judgment: "And it came to pass . . . that Cain rose us against Abel his brother, and slew him...
...Will you please explain how a picture (with sounds) of the actual disorders in San Francisco could be "scandalously inaccurate," as you stated in an April editorial...
...It would now seem clear that the failure of the great majority of Cubans to join in the invasion, clearly proved that, as of the present, they do not want to be rid of the Castro government...
...We left Castro no possible alternative, for sheer survival, but to turn to the Communist countries for help...
...Unfortunately, Mayer reduces his case to absurdity by resorting to the crudest kind of sophistry and the most shameless distortion of historical facts...
...As I see it we are the government holding up negotiations...
...His article on the Eichmann trial appears to go beyond human decency...
...There are solutions other than the cooperative associations of which Miss Harmer writes...
...Without too much effort, some aspect of the "family," "culture," "society," "early influences," can seemingly be found to be the cause of our present woes...
...They must not overstep or subvert the laws of humanity...
...How much sacrifice has he personally made to help his poor misguided wrongdoers from the wrath of their victim's sympathizers...
...To prevent his being kidnapped, and to stay the hand of anyone bent on "vengeance," I suggest that he be kept under surveillance from a distance great enough to avoid direct contact...
...One person left her body to the medical school of the University of California...
...Beneath this brilliant sophistry lies the utter distortion of reason, whereby not Eichmann is placed on trial, but Israel, and an abstraction called "the human race...
...Does Mayer contend that Argentina, which is still a home for many escaped Nazis, would have ever let Eichmann out of its jurisdiction to Israel, the United Nations, or anyone else...
...Are we beyond the law just because we are bigger and stronger...
...The whole concept of justice has been obliterated, twisted grotesquely, and thrown before his reading public as primitive vengeance...
...Let us honestly admit it and work toward reconciliation...
...He clearly chose a path which afforded him preference and prestige in return for being the ultimate agent in a regime dedicated to genocide...
...If Cuba goes Communist we have no right to interfere unless she invades the United States (not Guantanamo...
...There was sufficient purpose in questioning the validity of the "goals" of the Eichmann trial as set forth by Israel...
...A relentless search by citizens of Israel and Jews all over the world finally found Eichmann...
...Unless, of course, you can equate war mongering with liberalism...
...And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold...
...Maurer expresses disgust with the "excessive sexuality . . . lack of personal pride and the hysterical fear of everything and nothing" which she ascribes to Negroes...
...We may not punish Eichmann—or even the German people, unless we can bring to trial the whole human race, for they are the guilty...
...Here is a man who was denounced by the reactionary press when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to office, yet now we find Frankfurter an ultra-conservative...
...Probably the most fantastic statement in this absurd fantasy by Mayer is the quote: "Eichmann: But when the world sees that you [the Jews] no longer wish to do harm— even in retribution for harm done you—it will let you alone...
...If the demonstrators had tried with all their might, they could have done nothing more to build up the HUAC than they did by their disorderly conduct...
...Her children will be saved the emotional experience of a funeral, and all expense for one will be saved...
...Clara Sturces Johnson Claremont, California...
...Maurer ever heard of Marian Anderson, Martin Luther King, Carl T. Rowan, Robert Weaver, and many, many others...
...The thought of enabling a blind person to see is a happy one...
...Consequently, many public statements made by politicians and writers enter the realm of the fantastic...
...Execution of the guilty one does not necessarily have to follow...
...And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand...
...The illegal apprehension of a Nazi outlaw, then, is the moral equivalent of the capture and deliberate extermination of six million Jewish innocents...
...Ideally such a law would prevent such crimes from occurring...
...She asked her doctor if any other part of her body could be used...
...Gladys B. Harger Lansing, Michigan Opposes Kennedy on Cuba Dear Sirs: I have sent the following letter to President John F. Kennedy: I disapprove of our threatening policy toward Castro's Cuba...
...Samuel Z. Schaefler New York City Placing Responsibility Dear Sirs: Evidently Milton Mayer is trying to show that all the Nazis, all the Germans, and even all of the world, must bear responsibility for the extermination of the Jews...
...In our attempts to be fair to the wrong-doer is one completely to ignore the innocent victim...
...But even if logically we must accept the tremendous role these forces play in making us what we are, to say that we are completely bound by them is to completely abrogate individual responsibility for our actions...
...His actions were direct and unequivocal...
...This image of Barry Goldwater should be seen by many...
...Mignon E. Rothstein Los Angeles, California JFK Reappraisal Dear Sirs: I have said this before election and after election and I repeat it again...
...Eichmann's deeds, and those of Nazi Germany, are unique...
...Cessation of nuclear testing is one, and only one, phase of disarmament...
...It was written without the self-righteousness that usually obscures a Jewish author's reason when he writes about Nazis...
...Even this list is incomplete...
...He should sleep unmolested in the hills and fields of Israel...
...President Kennedy should be in a better position than people like myself to know what caused Castro to lean toward Communism...
...Mrs...
...Leaders of American Jewry must take a stand on this issue, lest a wave of anti-Semitism and contempt for Israel emerge from this show-trial that will be a timeless agony...
...I sincerely regret that you have not seen fit to attempt more vigorously a rapprochement with the Communist world...
...and the legitimate and pertinent question as to whether the trial of Eichmann will "persuade people not to be anti-Semitic...
...Eichmann was...
...Does Mayer contend there is something immoral about using force to bring Eichmann before the bar of justice...
...I hope that The Progressive will not follow the aberrant path upon which you seem to have embarked and will speedily return to the liberal, humanistic way...
...Israeli: We're not taking any chances...
...What does have to follow is the judgment of law, a law which must protect the weak and helpless against the perversion of power...
...Why does the United States not declare itself in favor of worldwide disarmament...
...As Mayer points out, Hitler was a master of this demagogic tactic...
...He makes use of dishonest and questionable devices "in a good cause": to persuade us that we should not make use of evil means to deal with evil...
...has proposed total world disarmament within a period of four years, I believe...
...It will fool the ignorant and possibly the uninformed, but it brings only disgust to the mind of anyone having some knowledge of the situation...
...But if we are to do this honestly and effectively we must be a bit more inclusive and less partisan and self-protective than Mayer has been...
...Is it too late at this point to show a more understanding attitude toward Cuba...
...Etta Linton San Diego, California Frankfurter's Record Dear Sirs: Now that Fred Rodell has done such a masterful job on Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, (March issue), why not have him examine the miserable record of Justice Felix Frankfurter...
...Ray Mostek Lombard, Illinois Questions for Humphrey Dear Sirs: I have just read Senator Hubert Humphrey's article, "High Noon at Geneva," in the May Progressive...
...If there was no disorder, how did it happen that several policemen went to the hospital...
...Dear Sirs: It is disappointing to me that President Kennedy appears to follow the same policy on Cuba as his predecessor...
...Remember the warning: "Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold...
...If you would only realize that our approach should be one of cooperation with them rather than petulant rivalry, ours might become a far better world...
...Mayer's discourse is often wise and logical, but he makes certain that the Israeli rebuttals are hardly more than the petulant rejoinders of an emotionally retarded child...
...We caution the Israelis to conduct themselves with meticulous correctness...
...H. F. Kohl Springfield, Ohio Racial Characteristics Dear Sirs: Adah Maurer writes in the April People's Forum that she is "fed to nausea" with the plight of the Negro and that when "they become willing to stick their own necks out for the rights denied them . . . they will merit our respect...
...In no other way can the divine sentence on Cain-Eichmann be fulfilled...
...Seymour Cain Pacifica, California Mayer's Diatribe Dear Sirs: By having an anonymous Israeli quote his Prime Minister as saying things Ben-Gurion never said and having Eichmann quote Der Fuehrer saying things Hitler never said, Milton Mayer in his diatribe is able to equate Ben-Gurion with Hitler...
...Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth...
...A sick person could be incited to lust by Mark Twain's conscious pornography (and this I will defend on artistic merits) or by Rembrandt's deliberately lewd drawings...
...Can we as a nation completely ignore the laws of decency and morality...
...In short, he asks of the Jew what the racist asks of the Negro: Become better than we and we will accept you...
...Assessing responsibility, however, is not the same as desiring vengeance...
...William E. Lerner Los Angeles, California Mayer Refreshing Dear Sirs: The tone of Milton Mayer's dialogue between an Israeli and Eichmann was refreshing...
...We treat as criminal anyone who attempts to overthrow our government by violence...
...Betty Friedmann Kalamazoo, Michigan Why Castro Changed Dear Sirs: I have just re-read the newspaper reports of Fidel Castro's visit to Washington in April, 1959...
...Israeli: It never has...
...The time will come when the Editors of The Progressive will have to make an "agonizing reappraisal" of their hero, John F. Kennedy, or forfeit their right ever to call themselves liberals again...
...I maintain that Milton Mayer's article is in this category of fantastic and irresponsible writing...
...How then can there be any moral defense for the proposal that we attempt, by violence, to overthrow the government that the people of Cuba want, no matter how much we dislike it...
...Neil McLaughlin New York City Beyond Human Decency Dear Sirs: Frequently Milton Mayer's articles have left me troubled and confused...
...He was kidnapped and brought to Israel to face trial...
...The confusion is a result of the hodgepodge attempt to include in one brief, contrived dialogue all the ramifications raised by the Eichmann trial—Israel's seizure of Eichmann in Argentina...
...no precedent exists...
...If the HUAC wanted to be unfair, they would have left out the parts where fire hoses were turned on the demon-trators and they were forcibly dragged down many steps...
...There are too many exceptions...
...If we insist on this immoral act, how can we escape the label of imperialist...
...Didn't we drive him to it...
...Mayer seems to think that because a crime is so huge and implicates so many people, that justice is thereby totally inaccessible through the court of law, and therefore must be abandoned altogether...
...But the possible consequences of his trial would be grievous...
...Presuming that everyone bears some guilt for the evil in the world, does Mayer presume that all people are disqualified to judge another of a crime, particularly a capital offense of the magnitude of Herr Eichmann's...
...He should be marked with the mark of Cain—a suitable "leper's bell" to proclaim the comings and goings of this monster who is beneath human "justice...
...He asked for a modest loan and some "patience and understanding" in his efforts to clean up the mess left by his predecessor, Batista...
...One feels that such generous, liberal impulses ought to be invested in some worthier cause...
...and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth...
...If we are to be honest, we must at least explore the role of British pacifism and disarmament, the failure of Britain and France to resist the German occupation of the Rhineland in 1935, the Western "nonintervention" policy in the Spanish Civil War, and the "peace in our time" wrought at Munich in 1938...
...There was a good reason for that 412 to 6 vote in the House of Representatives to continue the HUAC: The majority of Americans believe in law and order—not in Communist hell-raising...
...And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him...
...We then severed relations with Cuba and began to arm and train large numbers of "counter-revolutionists" (including refugee Batista cut-throats) whose avowed purpose is to commit aggression on Cuban soil, cause a civil war, and thus bring about the downfall of Castro...
...So far, to my knowledge, the United States has made not one single proposal for disarmament, whereas the U.S.S.R...
...We tremble lest they be lacking in Christian forgiveness and gentle mercy—not the Eichmanns, or the Nazis, or the German Reich...
...I believe it has long been the position of the American Civil Liberties Union, as well as of a minority of the Supreme Court, that no clear and present danger has been demonstrated in connection with the sale, distribution, or enjoyment of works which Fellman would probably label "hard-core pornography...
...Were the disorderly students hired by the House Un-American Activities Committee to put on an act—or were they the dupes of Communist agents shown in the picture...
...And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord . . ." Eichmann should be released to wander in Israel till he dies among those he tried to destroy...
...Certainly not living in the United States (or even on this planet) or reading The Progressive's fine articles on issues such as the struggle for desegregation in both North and South, and for civil rights in countries all over the world...
...Eichmann: You have never tried...
...Milton Mayer has written creditable articles in your magazine in the past...
...Irving Tanenbaum Chicago, Illinois Mayer's Straw Man Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's/'Eichmann in Israel" is a lopsided dialogue in which Eichmann is given the role of an intellectual Goliath battling a David without a slingshot...
...Emerson Symonds San Bernardino, California Dear Sirs: In a review of The Smut Peddlers in your April issue, David Fellman says, "To my knowledge no responsible or sensible civil libertarian defends hard-core pornography...
...At times they have clearly been in the wrong, but now we are...
...The issue is evaded when we place responsibility upon a culture, a regime, or just humanity...
...In the past, the bending of justice to suit national emotions has led to the perversion of the concept entirely...
...It is, of course, intellectually illuminating and morally edifying to bring out all the factors involved in and all the groups responsible for an act of historic injustice and iniquity...
...Encino, California Sick at Heart Dear Sirs: There was a time when the statement could be made (without pre-assurance of refutation) that the people of Cuba wanted to be rid of the Castro government...
...Eichmann's death would be a small loss...
...For that matter, a sick person could be incited to lust by Winnie the Pooh, and a reasonably curious adolescent could get his kicks from a list of Bowdler's deletions...
...Or destroy one they do want...
...I had hoped he would take a different course...
...they cared nothing about putting the facts of the Nazi slaughter against the Jews before the world...
...Yet upon closer analysis there appears a serious flaw in this skillful display of logic in defense of Eichmann...
...If Zionists persist in fighting Nazi fire with Israeli fire, only the cause of justice will be significantly burnt...
...I find nothing in these reports to indicate that Castro, in this early stage of his progress, had any idea of turning to the Leftists in his foreign policy...
...Rabbi Leon Kronish Miami Beach, Florida Israel's Moral Right Dear Sirs: Never in history has anything resembled the Eichmann case...
...I contend that Israel has a greater moral and ethical right to put Eichmann on trial than any group of Christian nations...
...I am certain that over the years the Communists will become more democratic just as we will become more socialistic...
...Chris Vasillopulos Geneva, New York Pornography Defended Dear Sirs: In reading David Fellman's review of The Smut Peddlers, by James Jackson Kilpatrick, I was stopped cold by the sentence: "To my knowledge no responsible or sensible civil libertarian defends hard-core pornography...
...World War II ended sixteen years ago and Eichmann was captured only within the last year...
...I am not alone, but he will have to do a little more reading in the field if he wishes to expand his knowledge further...
...Our government secretly abetted the anti-Castro forces through the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Rabbi Paul H. Levenson Fort Hood, Texas Crude Sophistry Dear Sirs: Milton Mayer's dialogue on the Eichmann case raises important moral issues: the use of unjust means to accomplish justice, the morality or usefulness of retributive justice, our mutual involvement in and responsibility for what takes place in our time, our common finiteness and sinfulness, and the whole question of our dealings with former Nazis and our relation to the German people—which is especially acute for those of us who are Jews...
...I do not stand with you as long as your actions are so unjustifiably threatening toward Cuba and the Communists...
...Maurer has been, or what she has been reading, the past few years...
...I consider this article an insult to the intelligence, a defamation of my kinsfolk, and a disgrace to the tradition and reputation The Progressive has had in the past...
...Such un-democratic shenanigans imply the immoral attitude that the end justifies the means...
...It is ridiculous to say that these are characteristics peculiar to one race, just as it is ridiculous to maintain that the qualities of ignorance, bigotry, and race hatred are exclusive qualities of whites...
...We would have to take account of the pacifists, isolationists, and a lot of people Mayer considers "good guys" as well as those he considers "bad guys," for making Nazi Germany strong, World War II inevitable, and sealing up the Jews in Festung Europa...
...You speak of Cuba's "fundamental rights," yet what of our fundamental rights to a peaceful existence...
...the guilt of America and Britain, plus an innuendo that Israel does not have a legitimate claim to Israel...
...its points well taken...
...I know of no studies which show a correlation between the reading of pornography and a participation in criminal activities, especially in sexual crimes...
...It is true that everyone is guilty of one crime or another, legal or moral...
...Another has willed her eyes to an eye bank...
...Of course, such an honest, inclusive exploration might prove embarrassing and painful for Mayer and his politico-spiritual comrades, but it would not only be more enlightening and edifying—it would also be more concordant with the moral sincerity which Mayer so constantly proclaims...
...Paton B. Crouse San Francisco, California Too Late in Cuba...
...If Mayer is fatuous enough to believe that Hitler and Eichmann would not have slain a Jew, if only they could have really accepted the fact that the Jews "no longer wish to do harm—even in retribution for harm done," he is so divorced from reality that a basis for discussion disintegrates...
...and from thy face shall I be hid...
...In Mayer's abstract identification schema, one important qualification is conveniently omitted: that the Nazis are being pursued and condemned for their deeds, while the Jews were pursued and exterminated merely for being born...
Vol. 25 • June 1961 • No. 6
