Letters to the Marshfield Public Library

January 30, 1999
Dear Members of the Board:
I request that the book "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen be eliminated from the Senior High School Library. The theme of the book is spelled out on the dust jacket: "They (the Germans) acted as they did because of a widespread, profound, unquestioned, and virulent antisemitism that led them to regard the Jews as a demonic enemy...

March 17, 1999
Dear Members of the Board:
I request that the book “The Holocaust, The Fire That Raged” by Seymour Rosse be eliminated from the M. Junior High School. Of the Holocaust books I have challenged so far this book is the most pernicious since it is written for young readers. I have a question for you: Can’t you wait until your charges are out of their childhood before you indoctrinate...