Status Updates From A Indústria do Holocausto

What a book! Many thoughts about this...

The post-script to the 2nd edition is a lot of the same as the first. That is to say, more evidence from more contemporaneously recent developments. I'll admit the sheer number of details made my head swim, but I generally understood that after receiving the $1.25B settlement from the Swiss banks, the investigative bodies needed to be sacked lest to blow the cover on the strong-arming operation. Oops.

The first post-script goes over some of the more contemporaneously recent developments in the Swiss banks case, including a bit of a dissection of the Gribetz Plan. The takeaways are that the metrics the plan cites are bogus in some was or another, and more importantly that the standard of action expected of the Swiss in this case was absolutely not applied to the USA's much more egregious record.

The book's conclusion concisely puts together the case that there is a phenomenon of utilizing the memory of the Holocaust by the American government and elite institutions that are aligned with it as a rhetorical cudgel to saber rattle against designated foreign enemies. This cudgel, of course, is never deployed to demonize violent US foreign policy (Holocaust comparisons become magically taboo, in those cases).

Just a staggering campaign of going after various countries for restitution in increasingly ridiculous manners, without once turning that sentiment towards the US, who has perpetrated many of the say things within the accusations, but is working hand in hand to assist the expropriation. Not a lot of this money actually goes to legitimate victims of these crimes, either. Quite a sad state of affairs!