Washington Post responds to previous letter with "Clarification"

WASHINGTON POST RESPONDS! ...in a wimpy way true to their modus operandi. On page A2, my recent letter received a published "Clarification". In typical Wash Post fashion, it wasn't much of a clarification. They missed the point - the caption contradicted the story and blamed the origins of the Holocaust on a Jew! "A photo caption with an August 11 Outlook review of Jonathan Kirsch's book "The Short, Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan, a Jewish teenager who killed a Nazi diplomat in 1938, as sparking the Nazi rampage against Jews known as Kristallnacht. One sentence in the review included similar wording. As the review made clear, while historians disagree about how much of Kristallnacht was spontaneous and how much was planned, the author believes that the killing was seized on by Adolf Hitler and his regime as a pretext for the pogrom."

Response to letter from 8/13/13

Hi Michael, Well put and right on target. History again takes a beating at the Post. As someone who with his family endured Kristalnacht, I’m especially grateful to you for making the Post aware of what really sparked the Holocaust. Shabbat Shalom. Leo

Letter to The Washington Post

Dear Washington Post Staff, In "The boy who struck back at the Nazis" (8/11/13), The Washington Post B ook Review includes a picture of Nazis marching during a funeral procession with the caption describing the event: "The Nazi attache was killed by a Jewish teenager in the German Embassy in Paris, sparking Kristallnacht, a wave of murder, rape and arson targeting Jews in German territories." By saying that the action of a Jew caused Kristallnacht - the horrid attack by Germans against the Jews of central Europe - The Washington Post commits bigotry of the highest order. Make no mistake, it was the Germans who, using the killing of the attache as a convenient pretext, sparked Kristallnacht by killing hundreds of Jews, destroying 1300 synagogues and 7,500 Jewish businesses, and rounding up 30,000 Jewish men sending them to concentration camps. It was their idea, they planned it, and they executed it! Blaming a Jew for being the spark - the beginnings of the Holocaust - deserves an immediate correction and apology to those of the Jewish faith for the outrageous claim. Michael Berenhaus

Published in "American Thinker"

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/wapo_picture_tells_the_story_its_text_wont_touch.html