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Author Apologizes For Faked Holocaust Book

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday.

...Misha Defonseca's book, "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years," was translated into 18 languages and made into a feature film in France.
Her two Brussels-based lawyers, siblings Nathalie and Marc Uyttendaele, said the author acknowledged her story was not autobiographical and that she did not trek 1,900 miles as a child across Europe with a pack of wolves in search of her deported parents during World War II.
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Source.

All I am wondering was how gullible are people to believe such a ridiculous story in the first place? I've never heard of this book before today, has anyone here read it?
 
WildCat said:
Source.

All I am wondering was how gullible are people to believe such a ridiculous story in the first place? I've never heard of this book before today, has anyone here read it?
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I never read the book or even heard of it. My guess is that the publisher wasn't too picky, and she just thought the book would sell well.

From the source you provided:
She [edit: the publisher] said she could not fully research Defonseca's story before it was published because the woman claimed she did not know her parents' names, her birthday or where she was born.
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How lame an excuse is that? The publisher could have asked the author to explain what her circumstances were right after the war and who helped her get reintegrated back into society. She could have made an attempt to verify her story or at least part of her story that way. Even for those times that would have been a unique situation and records would still have existed. And presumably since she is 71 now (also per the source), she was a child then, and would have needed a great deal of help.

And I have another question -- should people who intentionally fabricate false history be charged with a crime? I think its been argued that it should be covered under freedom of speech. Personally I think it should be considered a crime. Society is harmed when people intentionally lie about what occurred in the past. Its invaluable to be able to know what really occurred. ETA: Obviously, this thread is reminding me of others who have written books, produced forged documents, etc. in an attempt to prove that the holocaust never occurred. It can be argued that this woman's lie was not on as grand a scale, and that she may also have been mentally ill (per my read of the article citied in the OP), and so perhaps in her case, if intentionally fabricating false history was a crime, the sentencing would be light because of those two factors.
 
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WildCat said:
All I am wondering was how gullible are people to believe such a ridiculous story in the first place? I've never heard of this book before today, has anyone here read it?
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I think you can pretty much assume that any story about people being raised by wolves is a hoax. I can't imagine how one would fall for that.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
I think you can pretty much assume that any story about people being raised by wolves is a hoax. I can't imagine how one would fall for that.
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That's what I thought was so bizarre about it. And this wolf pack travelled with her for 1900 miles throughout Europe? Was the publishers BS meter out being fixed when this was accepted for publication? And someone in France made a movie about this?
 
Her story fits in with the rest of the holocaust fairy tale.
 
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I like her pathetic attempt at an excuse:

"I ask forgiveness to all who felt betrayed. I beg you to put yourself in my place, of a 4-year-old girl who was very lost,"

Yeah, but it wasn't a four year old girl who wrote the book was it? What an idiot.
 
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This is not an isolated case. There was a case here in Baltimore where a woman was giving lengthy lectures about her experiences in the Holocaust, but it transpired she made it all up. Sometimes it's attention seeking, sometimes pathological. It does not lend any credence to Holocaust denial, anymore than made up stories told by soldiers lend credence to a non-existant World War II.

I'm sorry, Sunni Man, you've lost all credibility with me by your comment.
 
WildCat said:
That's what I thought was so bizarre about it. And this wolf pack travelled with her for 1900 miles throughout Europe? Was the publishers BS meter out being fixed when this was accepted for publication? And someone in France made a movie about this?
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You're assuming that publishers and producers cared about truth rather than just seeing euro signs in front of their eyes.

the other factor is attitude like the one below.

Sunni Man said:
Her story fits in with the rest of the holocaust fairy tale.
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It becomes difficult to question the exaggerations and downright leis made by a few people regarding the Holocaust (human soap etc) as the neo-Nazis and their fellow travellers jump on any criticism of any story about the Holocaust as "evidence" that the overwhelming evidence of a systematic genocide of millions of people is also unreliable.
 
LibraryLady said:
I'm sorry, Sunni Man, you've lost all credibility with me by your comment.
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I have never understood why belief in the holocaust is like some sort of a litmus test for credibility.

If a person has doubts concerning the holocaust as advertized. Then anything they say on any issue is suspect and discredited.

Simply amazing!
 
Sunni Man said:
I have never understood why belief in the holocaust is like some sort of a litmus test for credibility.

If a person has doubts concerning the holocaust as advertized. Then anything they say on any issue is suspect and discredited.

Simply amazing!
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It's because of the overwhelming evidence. Eyewitness testimony of the victims, the perpetrators and the liberators, photographs, film, records kept by the Nazis themselves, diaries, etc. If you are not capable of believing in something that has overwhelming evidence of its existence, then you are not a person whose opinion I value; you lose credibility.

Does that answer your question?
 
LibraryLady said:
It's because of the overwhelming evidence. Eyewitness testimony of the victims, the perpetrators and the liberators, photographs, film, records kept by the Nazis themselves, diaries, etc. If you are not capable of believing in something that has overwhelming evidence of its existence, then you are not a person whose opinion I value; you lose credibility.

Does that answer your question?
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I guess it answered his question.
 
LibraryLady said:
It's because of the overwhelming evidence. Eyewitness testimony of the victims, the perpetrators and the liberators, photographs, film, records kept by the Nazis themselves, diaries, etc. If you are not capable of believing in something that has overwhelming evidence of its existence, then you are not a person whose opinion I value; you lose credibility.

Does that answer your question?
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Interesting. I think the math shows that the Germans murdered 4 million Jews not the 6 million advertised.

Does this place me out of your credibility box?
 
JEROME DA GNOME said:
Interesting. I think the math shows that the Germans murdered 4 million Jews not the 6 million advertised.

Does this place me out of your credibility box?
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Do you consider your calculations to be authoritative?

Have actually examined the primary sources?
 
Sunni Man said:
Her story fits in with the rest of the holocaust fairy tale.
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Before I merely thought of you as a pointless religious or trolling time waster. Now think beneath slime mold on the ground under dinosaur dung at the base of the evolution tree.

On the bright side, when I said "no honor" you have proved me correct.
 
I did not mention numbers. As far as I have read--and I have read a lot--the total was 12 million with a mixture of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Disabled, and others. Does it matter exactly how many were Jews?

ETA: Advertised? Strange use of the word.
 
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LibraryLady said:
I did not mention numbers. As far as I have read--and I have read a lot--the total was 12 million with a mixture of Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Disabled, and others. Does it matter exactly how many were Jews?
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To some it does matter. That is why I asked the question. If one comes off the 6 million number the charges of anti-semitism follow immediately.
 
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