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."