From: Croatoan <X@Y.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,can.politics,talk.politics.guns,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Deconstructing Simon Wiesenthal
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 02:44:40 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
>The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, California, is named after
>the famed Austrian Nazi-hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, a connection that
>turns out to be appropriate in disturbing but unexpected ways. That
>is, both Simon Wiesenthal and the Center named after him have been
>accused of flagrant lying, exaggerations and half-truths. Wiesenthal's
>confabulations were never a matter of published discourse among
>scholars, so far as this writer can determine, nor were they popular
>knowledge until quite recently. In any case, it is now known that
>Wiesenthal, a born story-teller, rarely let the facts get in the way
>of a good story-in fact many of the things he claimed to have done
>were fabrications. This recently came to light with the publication,
>in June of 2009, of Hunting Evil, by British Author Guy Walters, in
>which he characterizes Simon Wiesenthal as "a liar-and a bad one at
>that." Wiesenthal, he maintains, would "concoct outrageous stories
>about his war years and make false claims about his academic career."
>Walters found that there were "so many inconsistencies between his
>three main memoirs and between those memoirs and contemporaneous
>documents, that it is impossible to establish a reliable narrative
>from them. Wiesenthal's scant regard for the truth makes it possible
>to doubt everything he ever wrote or said."1
>
Another Hitler hater. Someone call Trump.