John Sack (journalist)

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John Sack (born March 24, 1930 in New York , NY - † March 27, 2004 ) was an American journalist and writer of Jewish descent.

Among other things, he was a war correspondent in Korea , Vietnam , Iraq and Yugoslavia , about which he published a number of books.

He was best known in Germany with his controversial work An Eye for an Eye (1995) about the crimes of a small group of officers of the Stalinist Polish secret service UB from Jewish families in 1945 and 1946. According to Sack, they argued that To take revenge for the Holocaust , especially German prisoners tortured and murdered in labor camps in Upper Silesia . In the Federal Republic of Germany the German version, which was announced under the title Eye for Eye , sparked a heated controversy. The weekly newspaper Die Zeit accused Sack of claiming that Jews and SS should be denounced as criminals in the same way. In view of the first attacks on the book, Piper Verlag had the 6,000 printed but not yet delivered copies crushed. But other media, including Der Spiegel , came to the conclusion that the facts were clearly presented correctly, although they criticized the form of the presentation as a "docudrama". A little later, Ernst Kabel-Verlag published the book without causing any further controversy.

Sack puts in eye for eye , citing numerous eyewitness reports as well as materials from the Federal Archives and Polish archives, etc. a. shows that in the first post-war years up to 1948 between 60,000 and 80,000 Germans died in camps at the University Library. The focus of the book is the camp commandant Salomon Morel , whom Sack interviewed personally.

In February 2002, he published an article on the subject of Holocaust denial in the well-known US magazine Esquire .

Works

  • The Butcher. The Ascent of Yerupaja. Rinehart, 1952.
  • From Here to Shimbashi. A report. Harper & Brothers, New York 1955.
  • Report From Practically Nowhere. Harper & Brothers, New York 1957.
  • M - Mad Moments and Soul-Killing Months. The Real and Surreal Horror That Was "the Nam". The New American Library, New York 1967.
  • Lieutenant Calley. His own story. Viking Press, New York 1971.
  • The man-eating machine. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1973.
  • Fingerprint. To Uncommon Autobiography. Random House, New York 1982, ISBN 0394501977 .
  • An eye for an eye. The Untold Story of Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945. Basic Books, 1993, ISBN 0465042147 . (Reports on Jewish members of the Stalinist secret police UB who operated concentration camps in Poland from 1945-46, in which Germans and anti-communist Poles were tortured and murdered)
    • Eye to eye. The story of Jews seeking revenge for the Holocaust. Kabel, Hamburg 1995.
  • Company C. The Real War in Iraq. William Morrow, New York 1995, ISBN 0688112811 . (a journalistic work on the first war against Iraq in 1990/1991).
  • The Dragonhead. The True Story of the Godfather of Chinese Crime. Crown Publishers, New York 2001, ISBN 0609603531 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ John Sack: I am a reporter and a Jew . In: The time . No. 10/1995 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.johnsack.com
  3. ↑ Volker Ullrich: SS Jews . In: The time . No. 08/1995 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Dorothea Hauser: Contemporary history: Too hot to touch? In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1995 ( online - Mar. 13, 1995 ).

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personal data
SURNAME Sack, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , NY
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 2004