(22 Feb 1995) German/Eng/Nat
The author of a book banned in Germany is insisting that it be allowed to go on sale - even though it claims Jews ran internment camps for German prisoners after World War II.
The German publishers have even ordered the destruction of all copies of "Eye for an Eye" by American journalist John Sack, fearing it could inflame racial hatred.
But the author claims his book has been dangerously distorted and that Germans should be allowed to read it for themselves.
Roata Boreczek's says her family emerged as broken people from their years in one of the internment camps for Germans in post-war Poland.
Perhaps hers is an explanation for why the story of these camps has remained quiet so long.
SOUNDBITE:
My mother and I we never spoke until her death, never, about the concentration camp. We were never strong enough to talk about it.
SUPER CAPTION: Roata Boreczek, Camp Survivor
Fifteen months ago the publication of John Sack's book "Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945" caused an uproar.
It's a chronicle of Jewish survivors of concentration camps such as Auschwitz who in their turn allegedly oversaw the torture and death of between 60, 000 and 80,000 ordinary Germans in post -war Poland.
SOUNDBITE:
There was one barracks in one camp where there were fifty babies in cribs, and the doctor in charge who was a Jew who had survived Auschwitz, he refused to give them milk: he fed them soup instead. 48 out of the 50 babies died. These babies were not SS, these were not Nazis
SUPER CAPTION: John Sack, author.
The cultural elite in Germany does not deny that some Jews committed atrocities but fears the book could be exploited by right wing extremists to try to diminish the Nazi's murder of six million Jews.
It was labelled "anti-Semitic fodder", a "vile docudrama" and a gift to neo-Nazis, but Sack points out that since the book's first publication 15 months ago, no one has seriously challenged his findings. And he says Germans have the right to make up their own minds.
SOUNDBITE:
Ten per cent of An Eye for an Eye is about the Jews who took revenge, Jews who whipped Germans and killed them...Ninety per cent of an Eye for an Eye is about Jewish restraint, Jewish benevolence.
SUPER CAPTION: John Sack
Mr Sack says that's a part of his book he would particularly like Germany's neo Nazis to read.
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