Christopher R. Browning Quotes

Clearly Anyone Who Wants To Dismiss Eichmann's Testimonies On The Grounds Of Their Demonstrated Unreliability And Shameless Self-serving Lies Can Easily Do So, And Many Of My Colleagues Have Done Precisely This. But What If Our Default Position Is Not To Dismiss Everything Eichmann Said And Wrote Just Because He Was Lying Most Of The Time, But Rather To Ask What Among This Mass Of Lies Might Nonetheless Be Of Help To The Historian, Given His Unique Vantage Point And The Sheer Volume Of His Testimony?

-- Collected Memories: Holocaust And Postwar Testimony, Page 11

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