Talk:David Kranzler

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Regarding this:

In an article about rescue attempts in Hungary, Randolph L. Braham criticized the book's accuracy, describing Kranzler as a "mythmaker".^[1]

^ Braham, Randolph L. (2004). "Rescue Operations in Hungary: Myths and Realities". East European Quarterly. 34 (2): 184. Exaggerated numbers of rescued Jews were also advanced in connection with the rescue activities of the Vatican [and various other organizations] ... A mythmaker identified his hero, George Mandel-Mantello ... the first-secretary of the Consulate General of El Salvador in Geneva, as 'the man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz'. Many of these accounts fail to note that the rescue attempts of the neutral powers were largely restricted to Budapest during the Nyilas era and that all of the neutral powers had close lucrative economic ties with Nazi Germany throughout the war.

I'm having trouble understanding the point of the criticism and how it relates to Kranzler, and in what sense Braham questions the book's accuracy. SarahSV ^(talk) 02:52, 26 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Echoing the points of Zuroff on the earlier book, Braham is criticizing Kranzler's account as one sided and uncritically promoting the activities of Orthodox rescuers. It seems like the book got a lot of popular acclaim, but the only review on JSTOR is from an Orthodox Jewish journal, and overall I can't see the evidence that the book was influential in mainstream academia. Catrìona (talk) 20:04, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

But it doesn't say that the account is one-sided, or that it uncritically promotes the activities of Orthodox rescuers, or that it isn't accurate, or that it didn't get good reviews. What does the quoted section say that is about Kranzler or his book? I can see that it calls him a "mythmaker", but that's about it. SarahSV ^(talk) 21:08, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

[Braham-1] Braham, Randolph L. (2004). "Rescue Operations in Hungary: Myths and Realities". East European Quarterly. 34 (2): 184. Exaggerated numbers of rescued Jews were also advanced in connection with the rescue activities of the Vatican [and various other organizations] ... A mythmaker identified his hero, George Mandel-Mantello ... the first-secretary of the Consulate General of El Salvador in Geneva, as 'the man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz'. Many of these accounts fail to note that the rescue attempts of the neutral powers were largely restricted to Budapest during the Nyilas era and that all of the neutral powers had close lucrative economic ties with Nazi Germany throughout the war.

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