To continue refuting Ruth Bettina Birn’s specific falsehoods point bypoint is to feed the charade that she is engaged in a scholarly discussion.Thirty examples (many containing multiple instances) of herfabrications, which I have documented in “The Fictions of Ruth BettinaBirn” should be sufficient to establish this. Nevertheless, just soothers cannot say that I have not responded to them, an addendumto this article taking up her individual misrepresentations, as well asmy original reply, can be found on the Internet at goldhagen.com.Here I will briefly put Birn’s commentary in its appropriate generalperspective, so that people may know what she is up to: attackingmy book and my character by ascribing to me views and ideas thatare the opposite of my own.
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