MEMO: Atzmon's consideration of Guy Walters's expose Hunting Evil offers interesting stuff on Simon Wiesenthal, though maddeningly unspecific, particularly in regard to Wiesel's wartime activity. (Is anybody surprised?). The revisionist, Ted O'keefe, wrote the expose back in 1988 as well as one that appeared in Smith's Report in the 1990s.
Did Mr. Walters learn anything from his articles?
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Deconstructing Simon Wiesenthal by Lawrence Swaim
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 at 8:52AM Gilad Atzmon 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
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