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Tarring the Coal

A new YA novel strays from history and bends reality to explore the Holocaust. Is that a sin?

David Michael Slater has written 22 books without breaking out on the bestseller lists. His next — The Vanishing, out this fall — may increase his visibility.

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It's fiction.

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He twisted the truth by setting the Holocaust entirely in Germany. He created victimization of the poor and the innocent. While the Holocaust was dreadful and NEVER should have occurred, in Europe. It sounds like another Holocaust story to me. I think Teddy could get a better author.

1. Most people had roots in their community particularly the Jewish, so they don't move around. Europeans particularly Germans are bullheaded. and I believe the "It won't happen here. It can't possibly be true. It won't happen to me" argument kept many in place.

2. The German people were fanatics about their politics. Why? Cultural purity was it's downfall. Had they not alienated Jews, Ukranians, Poles and Russians many would have joined the Nazi cause. Racial purity was not the central premise. The flaw of the holocaust is always magnified. If racial purity were discarded, what would have happened? Stalin was hated. Americans were a joke, 36th in military capabilities. France would fall because the population was divided. It sounds more interesting than this proposed scrum. Am I sacrilegious?

Was NAZI ism without the Holocaust lens like Technocracy and Communism? Klaus Schwab's ideas and the WEF are proposing is a society like Singapore, which is fascist. Are they close to NAZI ideology without a Holocaust? What is the economics, government and political dynamic? This book is another book that tells a sad story but blocks other things we should know.

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