Guenter Lewy

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Guenter Lewy (born 1923) is professor emeritus of political science, University of Massachusetts. Lewy was born in Germany. In 1939, at the age of fifteen, he immigrated to British Palestine and then to the United States. He has been on the faculties of Columbia University, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts. ^[1] He currently lives in Washington, D.C. and is a frequent contributor to Commentary.

In 1978, seven years after the Winter Soldier Investigation, Guenter Lewy noted in his book, America in Vietnam, that allegations against Marines were investigated by the Naval Investigative Service. Lewy wrote that the report stated that some veterans contacted by the NIS did not attend the WSI hearing in Detroit or had never been to Detroit, and many refused to be interviewed. Government officials today cannot verify the report's existence, and no other historian has seen it. Lewy later said that he could not recall if he had actually seen the alleged report or simply been told of its contents. ^{[2] [3]}

In November 2004, Lewy published an essay charging historian Ward Churchill with misrepresenting his sources. Lewy says Churchill's assertion that the U.S. Army intentionally spread smallpox among American Indians by distributing infected blankets in 1837 is false. "He just makes things up," said Lewy. Lewy calls Churchill's claim of 100,000 deaths from the incident "obviously absurd". ^[4][5]

Guenter Lewy is a supporter of the ideology of singularity of the Jewish Holocaust. He quotes in The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide that the argumentation of the genocide maintainers brought up to classify the World War I deaths as genocide fails to substantiate the charge that the Young Turk regime intentionally organised the massacres.

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.discovermilitaryhistory.com/military2/military-9.html
2. ^ Jackson, David (February 22, 2004). "Foes lash Kerry for Vietnam War words". Chicago Tribune: (Page 3). 
3. ^ Bowman, Tom (Feb 14, 2004). "Kerry went from soldier to anti-war protester". Baltimore Sun: 1A. 
4. ^ History News Network
5. ^ Rocky Mountain News

[edit] Published works

• Lewy, Guenter (1978). America in Vietnam. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-502732-9. 
• Lewy, Guenter (1988). Peace and Revolution: The Moral Crisis of American Pacifism. ISBN 0-8028-3640-2. 
• Lewy, Guenter (1990). The Cause That Failed: Communism in American Political Life. ISBN 0-19-505748-1. 
• Lewy, Guenter (1996). Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents. ISBN 0-8028-4162-7. 
• Lewy, Guenter (2000). The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80931-1. 
• Lewy, Guenter (2001). The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies. 0195142403. ISBN 0-19-514240-3. 
• Lewy, Guenter (2005). The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide. University of Utah Press. ISBN 0-87480-849-9. 

[edit] See also

• Winter Soldier Investigation

[edit] External links

• "Revisiting the Armenian Genocide" The Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2005.
• Letters on Lewy's article and Lewy's response
• Noam Chomsky's highly critical review of America in Vietnam is titled "On the aggression of South Vietnamese peasants against the United States", collected in his book Towards a New Cold War, (New York: Pantheon/Random House, 1982), ISBN 0-394-74944-8.
• An interview with Lewy