Norman FInkelstein Interview

1:10 - Norman on his political development and upbringing.

7:00 - In Norman's childhood, "being a Holocaust survivor was a badge of shame."

7:40 - The question his mom hated - "How did you survive"?

9:30 Norman fixes his camera!

10:10 "Six milion Poles were killed, and three million were Jewish."

10:25 Norman's universalist conception of the Holocaust.

10:55 "Most of the Jewish people who weren't a part of it didn't give a darn about it."

11:55 "Through my twelve years of grad school . . . and high school" almost nobody asked Norman or his parents about what his parents went through.

17:10 Norman rejects the idea that people who escaped Nazi occupation (as opposed to survivors of concentration camps) should be labeled Holocaust survivors.

19:10 - Norman : There were under 100,000 survivors.

20:00 - Norman's youthful defenses of Stalin.

22:10 - All of Norman's uncles, aunts, grandparents, and (parents') cousins were exterminated in the Holocaust.

23:00 - Norman "We never asked questions about my parents' families."

26:25 - "Tell me what she looked like."

26:42 - why Norman was not bar mitzvahed. -"there was no one to invite."

27:55 - How did being the son of survivors affect Norman's pysche.

29:10 - Finkelstein on Ibram X. Kendi.

31:00 More from Norman on how being the son of survivors affected him.

31:50 - Why nobody talked about the Holocaust in the 1950s and early 1960s.

33:50 - Why Raul Hilberg's book was so controversial.

35:50 - Why Holocaust remembrance was initially repressed in the West.

38:05 - A bit on Nuremberg.

40:05 - IQs of the Nazi Brass.

41:10 - Norman on Deborah Lipstadt.

43:00 - More on Lipstadt.

44:20 - Is there something about Norman that makes him such a polemicist?

45:30 - Deborah Lipstadt redefined Holocaust denial.

46:52 - Norman on Joy Reid.

47:44 - Norman on not punching down.

49:30 Finkelstein on Eli Wiesel -

52:00 - Hilberg, Finkelstein, and Wiesel.

52:40 - Hilberg defended Finkelstein's book "The Holocaust Industry."

53:15 Re - The substantive conclusions of "The Holocaust Industry."

56:50 Again, Norman does not "punch down."

59:50 - Difference between Norman`s (conservative) research conclusions and (polemical, radical) language.

1:00:50 - Norman on Burt Neuborne (litigator in Holocaust-related lawsuits against Swiss Banks)

1:08:08 - Has "The Holocaust Industry" been vindicated?

1:09:15 - challenging Finkelstein on some Holocaust institutions.

1:14:00 - Norman's old feud with Daniel Goldhagen (author of "Hitler's Willing Executioners").

1:19:44 - Me partially concurring with, partially challenging Norman's view on Holocaust denial.

1:22:41 - More discussion on Holocaust denial (and free speech).

1:39:15 - Norman describes his encounters with deniers.

1:41:45 Norman on Benny Morris.

1:43:57 - Why Norman refuses to buy a fan despite the weather - he believes in a lifestyle of simplicity.