Volume 33, Number 6 · April 10, 1986
'Schreibt un Farschreibt!'
By Gordon A. Craig
The Holocaust: A History of the Jews in Europe During the Second World War
by Martin Gilbert
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 959 pp., $24.95
The Other Holocaust: Many Circles of Hell
by Bohdan Wytwycky
The Novak Report (Washington, D.C.), 95 pp., $7.95
A Private War: Surviving in Poland on False Papers, 1941–1945
by Bruno Shatyn, translated by Oscar E. Swan, with a foreword by Norman Davies
Wayne State University Press, 285 pp., $18.95
Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles Under German Occupation, 1939–1944
by Richard C. Lukas
The University Press of Kentucky, 300 pp., $24.00
Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933–1945
by Deborah E. Lipstadt
The Free Press, 370 pp., $19.95
It is by now reasonably well known that six million Jews died as a result of the policies of Adolf Hitler, but far less so that the total number of nonmilitary victims of Nazi genocidal policies was probably between fourteen and sixteen million. The discrepancy between the two figures has led some students of the Second World War to question current usage of the term 'Holocaust' which is usually taken to mean the destruction of the European Jews, and the Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz has expressed concern lest this exclusivist usage tend to make people forget that millions of Poles, Russians, and prisoners of other nationalities suffered the same brutal end.
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