erspert@athena.mit.edu (Ellen R. Spertus) (05/08/88)
I was recently looking at Geoffrey Sampson's _And End to Allegiance_ and was startled by the following passage about Murry Rothbard: I would find it easier to believe that he might be right about that [a historical claim] if I did not know that Rothbard, like a number of other American `libertarians', also subscribes to the doctrine which they call `the Myth of the Six Million', that is the view that Nazi Germany never carried out mass exterminations of Jews, gypsies, and others -- the stories about the death camps are said to have been cooked up to suit various groups' ulterior purposes (p. 231). I have read many books and articles by Rothbard and have never come across this belief. Although I am an active libertarian, the only place I've seen any suggestion that the Holocaust didn't happen was from one book being sold in the Loompanics catalog, hardly a mainstream outlet. I'm curious to know both if there's anything behind this claim about Rothbard, and also if it is true about other (published) libertarians. Ellen