Henry Kissinger as KGB Spy, and Other Fantasies of a Paranoid U.S. Military: The Jewish Threat; Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army

Forward, February, 2001 by Fischel, Jack

Fischel, Jack Forward 02-16-2001 Henry Kissinger as KGB Spy, and Other Fantasies of a Paranoid U.S. Military: The Jewish Threat; Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army By Joseph W. Bendersky Basic Books, 538 pages, $30. By JACK FISCHEL Every so often a book is published that enhances our perspective about a historic event.

Joseph W. Bendersky's important work adds significantly to our understanding of the "failure" of the United States to do more on behalf of Jews fleeing Nazi persecution on the eve of World War II and, later, its decision not to bomb the crematoria at Auschwitz, or at least the railroad tracks leading to the death camp. Mr. Bendersky, who teaches history at Virginia Commonwealth University and also serves as book review editor for the...

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