The U.S. writer insists there are lessons to be learned from his research. Until we find out why, these holocausts will continue. If we hate and we act on that hate, then we have even more hate later on. You don't have to be a German to become like that. We all have it in us to become like Nazis.
Hate is like a muscle.
That article reported that two leading scholars, Istvan Deak and Arno Mayber, had verified that the kinds of crimes Sack reported in his book did indeed take place. Sack's interest in speaking at the Holocaust Museum resulted from an invitation to Goldhagen to speak there in April 1996. Goldhagen's thesis is that most of the German people were willing participants in the Holocaust, and that their crimes were rooted in German history and culture. When I see all this publicity going to someone who's absolutely 100 percent dead wrong, I want to speak out. In his National Press Club talk Sack acknowledged, in answer to a question, that Basic Books printed 17,000 copies of his book, but that it is no longer obtainable from the publisher.