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