Saturday, November 25, 2023

Relativism: A New French Novel Sanitizes Holocaust History

 



The New York Times reports that a new French novel uses relativism to sanitize France's role in the Holocaust. The novel fictionalizes the life of the woman in the Robert Capa photo "Shaved Woman of Chartres." The woman, Simone Touseau, was a pro Nazi collaborator. In the novel, she is presented sympathetically, because, as the author says in the above quote, there are no saints or bastards. 

That's a relativist stance. In fact there are saints and there are bastards. 

See the full Times article here

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  1. Jerzy PankiewiczNovember 27, 2023 at 8:33 AM

    It is not obvious that all shaved women deserved it and all punishers were heroic. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war

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