A U.S. academic defended the publication in German of his controversial book “The Holocaust Industry,” and urged Germany not to submit to blackmail over its past. “It is Germany’s right to reject the use of the Nazi Holocaust as a weapon for political and economic gain,” Norman Finkelstein, the son of concentration camp survivors, said in Berlin.
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