Deceit & Misrepresentation Schindler's List
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Keneally says that no event is intentionally fictitious; at times
he reconstructed dialog - so it is fictitious to the extent that
"quotes" are not true quotes. Keneally may be mistaken, or one of
his sources may be mistaken or lying, but the designation of the
book as a novel does not in this case mean that the events
described never happened.
Wikoff produces no substantive evidence
to cast doubt on Keneally's story, or the survivors who related
their experiences to him.
The first Touchstone edition (paperback) of the novel "Schindler's
List," which I purchased in March 1994, contains the following: "This
book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead,
is entire coincidental." [11]
This is standard boilerplate in the publishing industry. Again true to denier form,
Wikoff reads the title page, but completely ignores
Keneally's "Author's Note." Keneally's references to Goeth,
Schindler, and the labor camp are *not* coincidental, *not*
products of the author's imagination, but the result of interviews
with survivors of the camp.
This passage was removed from the second and third printings
of the Touchstone edition! Obviously the publishers feel the need
to obscure the fact that Keneally's "Schindler's List" is anything
but history.[12]
Perhaps they realized that the standard boilerplate was the lie.
Wikoff forms a dark conspiracy theory.
Why don't you "holocaust" cultists come up with some real
primary sources concerned the alleged crimes of Commandant Amon
Goeth? For instance, why don't you quote from the transcript of
Goeth's trial? When are you going to do your homework? [13]
The issue is that the deniers didn't do their homework when they
attempted to claim that the map and photos *prove* that the
incident depicted was impossible.
Wikoff tries to distract from
this by pretending that the subject under discussion is an attempt
to prove that Goeth did commit the crime of shooting a prisoner
from the front of a house in which he lived, rather than a failed
attempt to prove that he didn't.
3) The burden of proof is upon the accuser. If we are to
accept that Goeth really did shoot down inmates for fun or
just because his bathtub was not cleaned well enough, then
the "holocaust" cultists have to prove it. [14]
This is another classic denier technique: shift the burden of proof
(and then adopt an impossible standard of proof). As far as
proving Goeth's crimes, he was tried, convicted, and executed by
the Poles.
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