Opinion: The Holocaust Meets Popular Culture

by Abraham H. Foxman

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They [young people] are bombarded by as much disinformation as information. Holocaust deniers would have them believe that there were no concentration camps, no death camps; that Hitler’s Nazis didn’t have a Final Solution; that it is all just a Jewish conspiracy.

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Superman, in three recent issues of the comic book, was sent back in time to fight Nazi evil, but he never names the victims. The intent was to send a universal message. The result proved offensive to Holocaust victims. Didn’t the writers know that every Jew was a victim?

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Abraham H. Foxman is national director of the Anti-Defamation League and a Holocaust survivor.

Saturday, October 31, 1998

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