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| | Revising Night: Elie Wiesel and the Hazards of Holocaust Theology by Peter Manseau |
 | | On the other we have the likes of David Irving, Michael Hoffman, Robert Faurisson—the kind of historians-on-the-side who assert that Zyklon B was merely a pesticide, that the number of Jews murdered was actually far less than is contended, that anyway they died of typhus, and that, really, nothing much happened at all. |
 | | The second possible response is the "polemical"—a strategy of blaming rival theologies for not holding true to their spirit; asking Christians why they do not act like Christ. |
 | | Seidman's brand of Holocaust revisionism is more deadly than Holocaust denial," one of the letters said, "it is a corrosive poison that destroys from within." Even to research Holocaust theology, apparently, is to court revisionism—or, at least, to appear to do so. |
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